HITCHAM, a parish in the hundred of COSFORD,
county of SUFFOLK, 1 mile (N.N.W.) from Bildeston,
containing 965 inhabitants. The living is a rectoi-y, in
the archdeaconry of Sudbury, and diocese of Norwich,
rated in the king's books at £26. 13. 4., and in the
patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to
All Saints. There are almshouses appropriated by Sir
George Waldegrave, in 1663, for two poor persons.
William Burkitt, a biblical writer/ though commonly
considered a native of Hitcham in the county of North
ampton, was born here in 1650; he died in 1703.