FELIXSTOW, a parish in the hundred of COLNEIS, county of SUFFOLK, 11 miles (S.E. by. E.) from Ipswich, containing 385 inhabitants; The living is a vicarage, with the vicarage of Walton united, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and dioceseof Norwich, rated in theking's books at £5. 9 7, and in the patronage of Mr. Eagle and others. The church is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, The river Deben falls into the North sea on the east of this parish. Roger Bigod, in the reign of William II., gave the church of St. Felix to the monks of Rochester, who established therein a cell of Benedictine monks, which was suppressed in 15,28, and its possessions granted to Cardinal Wolsey, towards the endowment of his intended colleges.