LACKFORD, a parish in the hundred of THINGOE,
county of SUFFOLK, 5 miles (N. W. by N.) from
Bury-St. Edmund's, containing 163 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Sudbury,
and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at
£19. 10. 5. Sir Charles E. Kent, Bart, was patron in
1807. The church is dedicated to St. Lawrence. The
navigable river Lark runs on the northern side of this
parish, and is there crossed by a bridge.