RUSHMERE, a parish in the hundred of CARLFORD, county of SUFFOLK, 2 miles (N. E. by E.) from Ipswich, containing 437 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £4. 6. 8., and in the patronage of the Marquis of Bristol. The church is dedicated to St. Andrew.