Description
Banham a parish in Norfolk, 2 1/2 miles SW of New Buckenham, and 3 1/2 E of Eccles Road station on the G.E.R. It lias a post, money order, and telegraph office under Atticborough. Acreage, 3994; population, 1059. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £930 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is a beautiful building of flint in the Perpendicular style, and there are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, a public school, and charities amounting to £123.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
