Description
Witnesham, a parish, with a scattered village, in Suffolk, 2 1/2 miles N by E of Westerfield station on the G.E.R., and 4 1/2 NNE of Ipswich. It has a post office under Ipswich; money order office, Ipswich; telegraph office, Claydon. Acreage, 2046; population, 488. There is a parish council of seven members. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £420 with residence. Patron, St Peter's College, Cambridge. The church is an ancient stone structure in the Early English style. There is a Baptist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
