Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DARSHAM

DARSHAM, a parish in Blything district, Suffolk; on the East Suffolk railway, 5½ miles NE by N of Saxmundham. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Saxmundham. Acres, 1, 550. Real property, £2, 823. Pop., 409. Houses, 105. The property is divided among a few. Darsham Hall is a chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £101.* Patron, the Earl of Stradbrooke. The church has an octagonal font, open seats of carved oak, and a brass of 1641; and is very good. Charities, £28.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Darsham AP/CP       Blything RegD/PLU       Suffolk AncC
Place: Darsham

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