Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HENHAM

HENHAM, a hamlet in Wangford parish, Suffolk; 4 miles E of Halesworth. Acres, 1, 752. Real property, £1, 995. Pop., 161. Houses, 26. The manor belonged formerly to the Hoptons, and belongs now to the Earl of Stradbroke. Henham Hall, the Earl's seat, was built, in 1797, by James Wyatt; occupies the site of a previous mansion, burnt in 1773; and stands in an extensive wellwooded park. The hamlet forms a curacy with Wangford.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Suffolk AncC
Place: Henham

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