Belstead is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district of the English county of Suffolk.

[1] Belstead has amenities such as a village hall, St Mary's the Virgin Church, The bridge school for children with learning difficulties and Belstead Brook Hotel and Spa.

It is in the Belstead Brook electoral division of Suffolk County Council.

[2] In John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales Vol.

[4] The Bridge School is situated 1.9 miles from Belstead on Sprites Lane.

Work took place to clear the graveyard and clean the church.

[8] The church is described as below on its website.Graves & memorials have been identified from 1611 onwards by our village historian.

The interior is graced with a number of fittings and memorials dating from its earliest days, including the 15th-century rood screen with paintings of saints and others, all of which were mutilated by Tudor reformers or later by Puritans in the 1640s, a rood loft staircase set into the thickness of the outer wall, monumental brasses, and wooden pews.

There were only males working in most other sectors with many females having unknown or being without specified occupations.