CHILLESFORD, a parish in the hundred of PLOMESGATE, county of SUFFOLK, 3 miles (W. N. W.) from Orford, containing 140 inhabitants. The living is a, discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £5. 3. 4., endowed with £200 private benefaction, £200 royalbounty, and in the patronage of the Rev. Christopher Smear. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. The navigable river Butley runs on the west and south sides of this parish.