Description
Somersham, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 2 1/2 miles SW from Claydon and about the same distance NW from Bramford stations on the Ipswich and Norwich section of the G.E.R., and 5 1/2 NW from Ipswich. It has a post office under Ipswich; money order and telegraph office, Bramford. Acreage, 1095; population, 354. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £213 with residence. The church is a building of flint and stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and a square western embattled tower. There is a Baptist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
