CLAYDON, a parish in the hundred of BOSMERE-and-CLAYDON, county of SUFFOLK, 3 miles (N. N. W.) from Ipswich, containing 328 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, united to that of Akenham, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £10. The church is dedicated to St. Peter: the churchyard is tastefully laid out as a garden. The Stow-Market and Ipswich navigation crosses this parish.