EDWARDSTONE, a parish in the hundred of BABERGH, county of SUFFOLK, 1 mile (N. W.) from Boxford, containing 416 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Sudbury, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £4. 13. 4. Charles Dawson, Esq. was patron in 1817. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, was given with the tithes and other appurtenances to the monastery of Abingdon, by Hubert Munchesni, lord of the manor, in 1114, when a society of Black monks was placed here; but in 1160 they were removed to the. priory of Coin, to which the parish church became appropriated and belonged till the dissolution. There is a fair for cattle, horses, and pigs, on- the 24th of December.