Description
Blakenham, Great, a parish in Suffolk, on the river Gipping, 1/2 a mile NNW of Claydon station on the G.E.R., and 8 1/4 SSE of Needham-Market. It has a post office under Ipswich ; money order and telegraph office, Claydon. Acreage, 875 ; population, 276. The manor belonged to the Abbey of Bee in Normandy, and passed in the time of Henry VI. to Eton College. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £135 with residence. The church, an ancient building of flint and rubble, was restored in 1876. There is a Baptist chapel. 184
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
