Description
Fakenham, Great, or Fakenham Magna, a village and a parish in Suffolk, on the river Ouse, 5 miles SSE from Thetford station on the G-.E.R., with a post office, of the name of Fakenham, under Bury St Edmunds; money order and telegraph office, Euston. Acreage, 1854; population, 205. The manor belongs to the Duke of Grafton. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £214 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Grafton. Bloomfield resided here, and describes the scenery in his " Farmer's Boy." His "Fakenham Ghost" also refers to this parish.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
