Polstead

Polstead is a small village and civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk, England. The village lies 3 miles northeast of Nayland, 5 miles southwest of Hadleigh and 9 miles north of Colchester. It is situated on a small tributary stream of the River Stour.
The village is noted for being the site of the Red Barn Murder in 1827. The victim Maria Marten, once found, was re-buried in the churchyard of St Mary's Church, but her gravestone was eventually chipped away to nothing by souvenir hunters. Only a sign on a shed wall now marks the approximate place where it stood, although her name is given to Marten's Lane which adjoins Water Lane and Mill Street.

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