HACHESTON, a parish in the hundred of LOES,
county of SUFFOLK, 2 miles (N. by E.) from Wickham-
Marlcet, containing 534 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage with that of Parham, in the archdeaconry
of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in
the king's books at £6.1. 10. The church is dedicated
to All Saints. A new school-house was erected .in this
parish in 1826; the school is supported partly by voluntary
subscriptions, and partly by a bequest from Richard
Porter, in 1701, for the instruction of twelve poor boys.