CODDENHAM, a parish in the hundred of BOSMERE-and-CLAYDON,
county of SUFFOLK, 3 miles
(E. S. E.) from Needham-Market, containing 847 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage, with the perpetual
curacy  of Crowfield annexed, in the archdeaconry of
Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's
books at £12. 0. 5., and in the patronage of the
Rev: J. Longe. The church, dedicated to St. Mary,
was granted in the reign of Henry II. for the founding
of a Cistercian nunnery, but whether the design was
carried into effect or not is unknown. There is a place
of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. In 1758, Lady
Catherine Gardenau erected a commodious schoolhouse,
with an endowment in land now producing a
rental of £ 120 per annum, for teaching fifteen boys
and fifteen girls of the parish: at present, twenty-five
of each sex are partly clothed, and taught upon the
National system. A fair is held on the 2nd of October.