HALESWORTH, a market-town and parish in the hundred of BLYTHING, county of SUFFOLK, 30 miles (N. E. by N.) from Ipswich, and 101 (N. E.) from London, containing 2166 inhabitants. The town, which is situated in a valley on the banks of the river Blyth, is ancient and indifferently built, nearly in the form of the letter S, but contains a few good houses; the streets are spacious and well lighted with oil, but not paved, and the inhabitants plentifully supplied with water. There is a small theatre, which is open once in two years. The river is navigable hence to Southwold, for small craft of about twenty-five tons, which are usually laden with malt and grain. There are some very large malt-houses, the trade in malting being extensive. The market is on Tuesday, for corn and provisions; and there is a fair on the 29th of October, chiefly for Scotch cattle. The magistrates of the hundred hold quarterly meetings here; and courts leet and baron for the manor are held occasionally. The living is a discharged rectory with the vicarage of Chediston, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £20, and in the patronage of J. Ward, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a fine edifice of flint, and has lately received an addition H A L of -two hundred and twenty-five free sittings, towards defraying the expense of which the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels granted £ 100: the tower, though low, is handsome, and is ornamented with a very splendid clock recently put up. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, and Unitarians. A National school, in which two hundred children are educated, is endowed, according to the return of the Commissioners for inquiring into charities, with £30 per annum, the rent of a pew hi the church, bequeathed by John Hutcher in 1816. In a school .adjoining the church-yard, six poor children are instructed, by means of a benefaction of £60 left by Thomas Neale; and there is a school for twenty boys and twenty girls, endowed with a rent-charge of £17. 6. 8. bequeathed by Richard Porter, Esq. There are eight almshouses belonging to the parish, in which are fourteen poor widows, who- have a small weekly allowance j and a few other benefactions have been mad for different purposes.