THURSTON, a parish, with a village, in Stow district, Suffolk; on the Eastern Union railway, 4½ miles E of Bury-St. Edmunds. It has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Bury-St. Edmunds. Acres, 2,200. Real property, £4,521. Pop., 740. Houses, 157. T. House is the seat of J. B. Blake, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £250.* Patron, the Rev. P. M. Stedman. The church was rebuilt in 1861. Charities, £52.

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