Fornham St Geneveve, Suffolk

Description
Fornham St Genevieve, a parish in Suffolk, on the river Lark, 2 miles NE by N from Bury St Edmunds. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Bury St Edmunds. Acreage, 688; population of the civil parish, 100; of the ecclesiastical, with Fornham St Martin, 380. A sanguinary battle was fought within this parish in 1173 between the troops of Henry II., commanded by Robert de Lacy, chief-justice of England, and those of Henry's rebellions son, under the Earl of Leicester. Fomham Park is a chief residence, formerly the property of the Duke of Norfolk, and now the seat of Sir Wm. Gilstrap, Bart., who is lord of the manor. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Fomham St Martin, in the diocese of Ely; joint gross yearly value, £200 with residence. The church was burned in 1782.