KESSINGLAND, a parish in the hundred of MUTFORD-and-LOTHINGLAND, county of SUFFOLK, 5 miles (S. S. W.) from Lowestoft, containing 579 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £ 10, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Norwich. The church is dedicated to St. Edmund. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. This parish is bounded by the North sea on the east, where there is a signal station.