Description

Aldham, a parish in Suffolk, near the river Bret, 2 1/2 miles N of Hadleigh station on the G.E.R. Post town, Hadleigh, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1755; population, 228. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely ; yearly value, £264. The church is very ancient, and has a Norman round tower. A priory cell stood at Priory Farm. Dr. Rowland Taylor was burned, in 1555, on Aldham Common, where a monument has been erected as a memorial.