SHOTTISHAM, a parish, with a village, in Woodbridge district, Suffolk; 4¼ miles SE of Woodbridge r. station. It has a post-office under Woodbridge. Acres, 1,135. Real property, £1,407. Pop., 317. Houses, 79. The manor belongs to the Rev. W. W. Darby and the Rev. M. B. Darby. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £230.* Patrons, the Rev. W. W. Darby and the Rev. M. B. Darby. The church was restored in 1867. There is a national school.

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