Barnham, Suffolk
Historical Description
Barnham, a parish in Suffolk, on the Little Ouse river, having a station on the Bury and Thetford railway, 2½ miles S from Thetford, which is the post and money order office; telegraph office, Euston. Acreage, 5291; population, 454. Some tumuli in the N are supposed to mark the scene of a conflict in 870 between King Edward the Elder and the Danes. An ivy-clad square tower belonged to the church of the extinct or incorporated parish of Barnham-St-Martin. The living is a rectory, consolidated with that of Euston and Fakenham Parva, in the diocese of Ely, in the gift of the Duke of Grafton. The church was restored and enlarged in 1864.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Suffolk | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Barnham St. Gregory and St. Martin | |
Hundred | Blackbourn | |
Poor Law union | Thetford |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Barnham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Barnham (St. Gregory and St. Martin))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Barnham are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Suffolk papers online: