BLUNDESTON, a parish in Mutford district, Suffolk; near the coast, 2 ½ miles ENE of Somerleyton r. station, and 3 ½ NW by N of Lowestoft. It has a post office under Lowestoft. Acres, 1,573. Real property, £3,306. Pop., 664. Houses, 156. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to R. H. Reeve, Esq. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Flixton, in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £617.* Patrons, Executors of T. Morse, Esq. The church is old. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £87.

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