ELMSETT, a parish in the hundred of COSFORD, county of SUFFOLK, 4 miles (N. E. byN.) from Hadleigh, containing 371 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Sudbury, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £13. 7. 1., and in the patronage of the Master, Fellows, and Scholars of Clare Hall, Cambridge. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is built of flint and stone, and the parsonage-house is surrounded by a moat. There is a fair for toys on Whit- Thursday. On the declivity of a hill is a cold mineral spring, called the Dropping Well, issuing out of limestone rock, and producing fibrous chrystallizations.