Playford (St. Mary)

PLAYFORD (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Woodbridge, hundred of Carlford, E. division of Suffolk, 4¼ miles (N. E. by E.) from Ipswich; containing 253 inhabitants. and comprising 1200 acres. Playford Hall, formerly the seat of the Felbriggs and Feltons, from whom it descended to the Marquess of Bristol, was occupied by the venerable Mr. Clarkson, the strenuous and successful opposer of the slave trade; who died here, at the age of 86, on the 26th September, 1846. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £53; patron and impropriator, the Marquess.