BARHAM, a parish in the hundred of BOSMERE-and-CLAYDON,
county of SUFFOLK, 4 miles (N. N. W.) from
Ipswich, containing, with the inmates of the house of
industry for the hundred, 845 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese
of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £12. 10. 5.,
and in the patronage of the Rev. John Longe. The
church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a handsome edifice
with a very large chancel. The parish is bounded on
the west by the navigable river Gipping. In a field,
called Chapel field, the floor of an ancient chapel was
lately turned up by the plough.