Denham (Bury St Edmunds), Suffolk

Historical Description

Denham, a parish in Suffolk, 2¾ miles SSE from Higham station on the G.E.R., and 6½ WSW from Bury St Edmunds. Post town, Bury St Edmunds; money order and telegraph office, Barrow. Acreage, 1310; population, 164. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; gross yearly value, £200 with residence. The church is a small building of flint in the Early English style. A chapel on the north side contains two monuments erected to the memory of Sir E. Lukenor, Bart., who was buried here in the early part of the 17th century.

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.

Church Records

The Denham Parish Registers are available online as part of the Suffolk Parish and Probate Records.

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 Denham (Bury St Edmunds) from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Denham (Bury St Edmunds) 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