STOVEN, a parish in the hundred of BLYTHING,
county of SUFFOLK, 5 miles (N. E. by E.) from Halesworth,
containing 116 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese
of Norwich, endowed with £ 600 royal bounty, and
in the patronage of the Rev. N. T. O. Leman. The
church, dedicated to St. Margaret, contains a Norman
arch of great beauty.