Description
Wrentham, a parish, with a scattered village, in Suffolk, 3 miles NNE of Wangford, and 5 E of Brampton station on the G.E.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Wangford. Acreage, 2334; population, 1018. The manor belongs to the Gooch family. Wrentham Hall stands in the village, and was completed in 1862. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £500 with residence. The church is old and handsome, and has a lofty tower, which was used as a beacon-post during the threatened French invasion. There are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels, a lecture-hall and reading-room of 1858, and a training home for servants.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
