BUCKLESHAM, a parish in the hundred of COLNEIS,
county of SUFFOLK, 5 miles (E. S. E.) from
Ipswich, containing. 269 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and dio-
cese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £9. 1. 8.
and in the patronage of W. Walford, Esq. The church
is dedicated to St. Mary. The crag ,pits in this parish
contain a great quantity of shells, generally considered
to be antediluvian remains: bones of fishes in a state of
petrefaction have also been found.