LAKENHEATH, a parish in the hundred of LACKFORD,
county of SUFFOLK, 5 miles (N.) from Mildenhall,
containing 1042 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, with Undley, in the archdeaconry of
Sudbury, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's
books at £4. 18. 11., endowed with £200 private benefaction,
£200 royal bounty, and £400 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of
Ely. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There are
places of worship for Huntingtonians and Wesleyan
Methodists. The navigable Little Ouse runs on the
north of the parish.