DARSHAM, a parish in the hundred of BLYTHING, county of SUFFOLK, 5 miles (N.E. by N.) from Saxmundham, containing 487 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £4. 10. 10., endowed with £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Earl of Stradbroke. The church is dedicated to All Saints. There is a Sunday school, supported by £4 per annum, arising from cottages and land called the Town Estate.