Barham, Suffolk

Historical Description

Barham, a village and a parish in Suffolk, on the river Gipping, 1½ mile NE of Claydon station on the G.E.R., and 5 miles N of Ipswich. Money order and telegraph office, Claydon, under Ipswich. Acreage, 1802; population, 458, which included 85 in the workhouse. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; value, £290 with residence. The church is good. Shrubland Park and Barham Hall, two fine country seats, are in this parish. The workhouse for Bosmere and Claydon union is here.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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 Barham from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Barham (St. Mary))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Barham 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:

• The Ipswich Journal
• East Suffolk Mercury and Lowestoft Weekly News
• Bury and Norwich Post
• Bury Free Press