Wickham-Skeith (St. Andrew)

WICKHAM-SKEITH (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union and hundred of Hartismere, W. division of Suffolk, 2 miles (N. N. W.) from Thwaite; containing 574 inhabitants. It comprises 1768a. 2p., of which about 35 acres are roads and waste, and the remainder arable and pasture land in good cultivation. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £5. 8. 1½., and in the gift of the Rev. C. Garrard; impropriators, the landowners. The great tithes have been commuted for £422, and the vicarial for £129. 10.; the glebe comprises 10 acres. The church is a handsome structure, chiefly in the later English style, with a square tower, and a north and south porch.