Little Glemham, Suffolk
Historical Description
Glemham, Little, or Glemham Parva, a parish in Suffolk, adjacent to the river Aide, 1½ mile ENE of Marles-ford station on the G.E.R., and 4¼ SW of Saxmundham. It has a post office under Wickham Market; money order office, Farnham; telegraph office, Wickham Market. Acreage, 1285; population of the civil parish, 281; of the ecclesiastical, with Great Glemham, 563. Glemham Hall was formerly the seat of the Glemhams, one of whom, Sir Thomas, fought conspicuously for Charles I., and is now the property of the Earl of Guildford. The living is a rectory, united with the perpetual curacy of Great Glemham, in the diocese of Norwich; joint net yearly value, £213 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Guildford. The church is a building of flint and stone, in the Perpendicular style.
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 | Little Glemham St. Andrew | |
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 Little Glemham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Glemham, Little (St. Andrew))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Little 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: