LINDSEY, a parish in the hundred of COSFORD,
county of SUFFOLK, 4 miles (W. N. W.) from Hadleigh,
containing 232 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Sudbury, and diocese
of Norwich, and in the patronage of the Provost and
Fellows of King's College, Cambridge. The church is
dedicated to St. Peter. This place -was formerly celebrated
for the manufacture of an article which has received
the name of "Linsey Woolsey." On a farm, called
the Chapel farm, are {he remains of an old chapel, now
used as a barn; and on the same estate there is a
Danish encampment.