Description
Depden, a village and a parish in Suffolk, 5 miles S from Saxham station on the G.E.R., and 7 SW from Bury St Edmunds, with a post office under Bury St Edmunds; money order and telegraph office, Wickhambrook. Acreage, 1596 ; population, 224. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £237 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is an ancient building of brick and stone in the Early English style. It has some stained windows, and a brass of Lady Ann Jermyn and two husbands. Bishop Sparrow was a native.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
