STANNINGFIELD, a parish in the hundred of
THEDWESTRY, county of SUFFOLK, 5 miles (S. byE.)
from Bury-St. Edmunds, containing 290 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Sudbury,
and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at
£8. 0. 2. T. A. Cook, Esq. and others were patrons
in 1809. The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas.
Mrs. Inchbald, an ingenious novelist and dramatic
writer, was a native of this place; she died at Kensington
in 1821.