Description
Whelnetham, Great, a parish in Suffolk, with a station at Little Welnetham on the G.E.R., 3 1/2 miles SSE of Bury St Edmunds. It has a post office under Bury St Edmunds; money order and telegraph office, Bury St Edmunds. Acreage, 1495; population, 362. There is a parish council consisting of five members. Whelnetham Hall, formerly the seat of Sir R. Gipps, is now a farmhouse. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £300 with residence. The church was the church of the priory.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
