BLAKENHAM (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of BOSMERE-and-CLAYDON, county of SUFFOLK, 3 miles (S. B. by S.) from Needham, containing 162 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £6. 16. 0., and in the patronage of the Provost and Fellows of Eton College. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. Walter Gifford, Earl of Buckingham, appropriated this manor, in the time of William II., to the abbey of Bee in Normandy, the society of which established a cell here, which was suppressed with other Alien priories, whereupon the manor was given by Henry VI. to the provost and fellows. The Stow-Market and Ipswich canal passes along the south-eastern side of the parish.