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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
MENDHAM, a village in Hoxne district, Suffolk, and a parish partly also in Norfolk. The village stands on the river Waveney at the boundary with Norfolk, 1¾ mile ESE of Harleston r. station; and has a postal letter-box under Harleston. The parish comprises 3,144 acres. Real property of the Suffolk portion, £4,286. Pop., 558. Houses, 121. Real property of the Norfolk portion, £1,963. Pop., 221. Houses, 49. There are three manors, Walsham Hall, Mendham King's Hall, and Priory; and the first belongs to W. S. Holmes, Esq.,-the second and the third, to Sir Robert S. Adair, Bart. The priory is the residence of Capt. T. Wood A Cluniac priory, a cell to Castle-Acre in Norfolk, was founded here, in the time of Stephen, by William, son of Roger de Huntingfield; was given, at the dissolution, to the Brandons; and has left some remains The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value. £122.* Patron, the Rev. E. W. Whitaker. The church is later English; consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with a tower; and contains three good brasses of the Freston family, and several mural monuments. There are chapels for Independents and Wesleyans, and a parochial school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Hoxne RegD/PLU Norfolk AncC Suffolk AncC |
| Place: | Mendham |
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