HUNDON, a village and a parish in Risbridge district, Suffolk. The village stands 3½ miles N W of Clare r. station, and 6 NE by E of Haverhill; and has a postoffice under Newmarket, and a fair on Holy Thursday. The parish comprises 4, 461 acres. Real property, £6, 863. Pop., 1, 132. Houses, 255. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged formerly to the Vernons, and belongs now to the Dashwoods. Coins of Athelstane were found in 1687. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £201. * Patron, Jesus College, Cambridge. The church is aucient; was recently restored; and consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with a porch and tower. An adjoining building contains a pyramidal monument to Arethusa, daughter of Lord Clifford. There are an Independent chapel, and charities £200.

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