PLAYFORD, a parish in the hundred of CARLFORD, county of SUFFOLK, 4 miles (N. E. by B.) from Ipswich, containing 264 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy,, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, endowed with £800 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Marquis of Bristol. The chapel is dedicated to St. Mary.