FRECKENHAM, a parish in the hundred of LACKFORD,
county of SUFFOLK, 3 miles (S.W. by W.) from
Mildenhall, containing 366 inhabitants. The living
comprises a discharged vicarage and a rectory, within
the peculiar jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rochester, the
former rated in the king's books at £3. 15. 2., the
latter at £16. 11. 5, endowed with £220 private benefaction,
and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of
the Master and Fellows of Peter House, Cambridge. The
church is dedicated to St. Andrew. The river .Lark is
navigable on the north of this parish, where it receives
a smaller stream, which runs through the village.