POLSTEAD, a parish in the hundred of BABERGH, county of SUFFOLK, 3 miles (N. N. E.) from Nayland, containing 900 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Sudbury, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £22, and in the patronage of F. R. Reynolds, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.