FLIXTON, a parish in the hundred of WANGFORD,
county of SUFFOLK, 3 miles (S. W.) from Bungay, containing
209 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage,
in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of
Norwich, rated in the king's books at £6. A. Adair,
Esq. was patron in 1820. The church is dedicated to
St. Mary. At this place was an Augustine nunnery,
founded by Mareny, Baroness Creke, in 1258, and valued
at the dissolution at £ 23 per annum.