Description
Henley, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The village is 2 1/2 miles ENE of Claydon station on the G.E.R., and about 4 N of Ipswich. It has a post office under Ipswich; money order and telegraph office, Claydon. The parish comprises 1235 acres; population, 220. Near its NE boundary rises the Fyme, an affluent of the river Deben. The Dean and Chapter of Norwich are lords of the manor of Henley Sextons, and also patrons of the living, which is a vicarage I'B the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £190. The church is an ancient building in the Early English and Perpendicular styles. Henley Hall, where the Theobald family formerly resided, is the chief residence in the parish.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
