SNAPE, a village and a parish in Plomesgate district, Suffolk. The village stands near the river Alde, 3½ miles S by E of Saxmundham r. station; bears the name of S.-Street; and has a post-office of the name of S. under Saxmundham. The parish contains also the hamlet of S.-Bridge, which has a horse fair on 11 Aug. Acres, 2,100. Real property, £2,219. Pop., 554. Houses, 124. S. House is the seat of J. Scarlett, Esq. A Benedictine priory, a cell to Colchester, was founded here, in 1099, by W. Martell; was given, by Henry VII., to Butley abbey; went, at the dissolution, to the Duke of Norfolk; and is now a farmhouse. A branch railway, for goods only, comes to S.-Bridge. There are two barrows. The living is a vicarage, annexed to Friston-The church has a rich later English nave, and a Norman tower; and was restored in 1864. There are a national school, and charities £6.

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