STANSTEAD, a parish in the hundred of BABERGH, county of SUFFOLK, 5 miles (N. E. by E.) from Clare, containing 341 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, ia the archdeaconry of Sudbury, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £10, and in the patronage of the Her. S. Sheen. The church is dedicated to St. James.