Description
Downham Santon or Santon Downham, a parish in Suffolk, on the river Ouse, at the boundary with Norfolk, 2 1/2 miles E from Brandon station on the G.E.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Brandon. Acreage, 3921; population, 68. A sand-drift in 1668, blowing hither from Lakeneath, overwhelmed upwards of 1500 acres of the land, and nearly choked the river. Downham Hall, a seat of the Mackenzie family, is a fine mansion of white Suffolk brick standing in a well-timbered park. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; value, £52. The church is .a small building of flint in the Early English, Norman, and Transition styles.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
