FLOWTON, a parish in the hundred of BOSMERE-and-CLAYDON, county of SUFFOLK, 5 miles (W.N.W.) from Ipswich, containing 150 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £3. 9. 9., endowed with £200 royal bounty. H. S. Thornton, Esq. was patron in 1815. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.