Farnham, Suffolk
Historical Description
Farnham, a village and a parish in Suffolk, near the river Aide, 2-¼ miles SW from Saxmundham, and 3¼ NE from Marlesford station on the G.E.R., with a post and money order office under Saxmundham; telegraph office, Wickham Market. Acreage, 1199; population, 185. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £86 with residence. The church is Norman, with a flint tower, and very good.
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 | Farnham St. Mary | |
Hundred | Plomesgate | |
Poor Law union | Plomesgate |
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 Farnham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Farnham (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Farnham 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: