Dalham, Suffolk

Historical Description

Dalham, a village and a parish in Suffolk, 3½ miles S from Higham station on the G.E.R., and 5½ E by S of Newmarket. The parish contains the hamlet of Dunstall Green, and has a post and telegraph office under Newmarket; money order office, Gazeley. Acreage, 2098; population, 364. Dalham Hall was built in 1705 by Bishop Patrick, and is now the seat of the Affleck family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £264 with residence. The church is a building of flint, chiefly of the Perpendicular period.

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 Dalham from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Dalham 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