Description
Wickham Skeith, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 2 miles E of Finningham station on the G.E.R., and 4 1/2 SW by S of Eye, Post town, Stonham. Acreage, 1782; population, 439. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. Wickham Hall was rebuilt in 1846, and is now the parsonage. Many Saxon coins have been found. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £115 with residence. The church is an ancient building of flint in the Perpendicular style. There are a chapel of ease and a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
