HARKSTEAD, a parish in the hundred of SAMFORD, county of SUFFOLK, 65 miles (S. by E.) from Ipswich, containing 301 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, aud diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at & 11. 3. 9. The Rev. H. D. Berners was patron in 1803. The church is dedicated to St. Mary, besides which, there was formerly a chapel dedicated to St. Clement. The navigable river Stour runs on the southern side of the parish.