Description
Barham, a village and a parish in Suffolk, on the river Gipping, 1 1/2 mile NE of Claydon station on the G.E.R., and 5 miles N of Ipswich. Money order and telegraph office, Claydon, under Ipswich. Acreage, 1802 ; population, 458, which included 85 in the workhouse. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; value, £290 with residence. The church is good. Shrubland Park and Barham Hall, two fine country seats, are in this parish. The workhouse for Bosmere and Claydon union is here.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
