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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Chediston like this:
CHEDISTON, a parish in Blything district, Suffolk; near the East Suffolk railway, 2 miles W by N of Halesworth. Post town, Halesworth. Acres, 2, 378. Real property, £3, 821. Pop., 418. Houses, 84. The property is subdivided. Chediston Hall is a Tudor edifice, and the seat of the Rants. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Halesworth, in the diocese of Norwich. The church is old and tolerable. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, and charities £49.
Chediston is now part of EAST SUFFOLK District. Click here for graphs and data of how EAST SUFFOLK has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Chediston itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Chediston, in East Suffolk and Suffolk | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/7085
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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