Wenham, Great, or Wenham-Combust (St. John)
WENHAM, GREAT, or Wenham-Combust (St. John), a parish, in the incorporation and hundred of Samford, E. division of Suffolk, 8 miles (S. W. by W.) from Ipswich; containing 198 inhabitants, and comprising by admeasurement 1108 acres. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king's books at £8. 13. 4.; patron, the Rev. D. C. Whalley: the tithes have been commuted for £275, and the glebe consists of 6 acres.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.