Great Glemham, Suffolk

Historical Description

Glemham, Great, a village and a parish in Suffolk, 2¼miles ENE of Parham station on the G.E.R., and 4 WSW of Saxmundham, with a post office under Saxmundham; money order office, Farnham; telegraph office, Saxmundbam. Acreage of civil parish, 1918; population, 282; of ecclesiastical, with Little Glemham, 563. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the rectory of Little Glemham, in the diocese of Norwich; ]'oint net yearly value, £213 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Guildford. The church is a building of flint in the Perpendicular style.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Great Glemham from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Great Glemham 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