Darsham, Suffolk

Historical Description

Darsham, a parish in Suffolk, on the G.E.R., 5¼ miles NE by N of Saxmundham. It has a station on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Saxmundham. Acreage, 1594; population, 365. Darsham House is a chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; value, £105 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Stradbroke. The church (All Saints) is a building of flint and stone in the Early English style, with nave, chancel, south porch, and tower with four bells. It has open seats of carved oak, an octagonal font presented by Sir Godfrey Symonds in 1405, a brass of 1641, several stained windows to the memory of the Purvis family, late of Darsham House, and is very good. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.

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 Darsham from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Darsham (All Saints))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Darsham 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