BUTLEY, a parish in Plomesgate district, Suffolk; on a sea-creek of its own name, 3 miles W of Orford, and 4½ ESE of Wickham-Market-Junction r. station. Post Town, Orford, under Wickham-Market. Acres, 1,941. Real property, £1,764. Pop., 385. Houses, 81. The property is divided among a few. A priory of Black canons was founded here, in 1171, by Ranulph de Glanville; and given, at the dissolution, to the Duke of Norfolk and William Forth. Ruins and fragments of the Abbey occupy nearly 12 acres; and part of the gateway has been fitted up as a house. The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacy of Capel, in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £135. Patron, Lord Rendlesham. The church is good. There is a national school.

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