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.
