STANTON, a village and a parish in Thingoe district, Suffolk. The village stands 6 miles N by W of Elmswell r. station, and 9 NE of Bury-St. Edmunds; and has a post-office under Bury-St. Edmunds, and a fair on Whit-Monday. The parish is twofold,-S.-All Saints and S.-St. John, and comprises 3,254 acres. Real property, £6,151. Pop., 1,045. Houses, 224. The property is subdivided. The living is a double rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £983.* Patron, H.L. Moseley, Esq. There are two churches, a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £114.

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