Wordwell (All Saints)
WORDWELL (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Thingoe, hundred of Blackbourn, W. division of Suffolk, 6 miles (N. by W.) from Bury St. Edmund's; containing 66 inhabitants, and comprising 2209a. 16p. The living is a discharged rectory, united to that of West Stow, and valued in the king's books at £7. 7. 3½.: the tithes have been commuted for £174. 5. 9. The church is a small edifice in the Norman style.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.