KIRTON, a village and a parish in Woodbridge district, Suffolk. The village stands nearly midway between the Deben and the Orwell, 3¾ miles from the coast, 5½ S by E of Bealings r. station, and 8 SE of Ipswich; and has a post office under Ipswich.—The parish comprises 1,813 acres of land and 85 of water. Real property, £3, 083. Pop., 541. Houses, 121. Much of the property belongs to the Ipswich Charity Trustees. There are two manors, one of which belongs to the Duke of Hamilton, the other to Miss Cartwright. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £500.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is early English, in rubble, with a stone tower and a new aisle; and contains a very ancient piscina. There are a Wesleyan chapel and 3½ acres of poors' land. Clara Reeve, who wrote the " Old English Baron, '' was a native.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))