Description
Needham, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village stands on the river Waveney, at the boundary with Suffolk, U mile SW of Harleston station on the Waveney Valley section of the G.E.R., and is small and scattered. It has a post office under Harleston; money order and telegraph office, Harleston. The parish comprises 1157 acres; population, 335. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. The church is an ancient building of brick, stone, and flint in the Norman style, and consists of nave and chancel, with porch and round tower.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
