HIGHAM, a parish in the hundred of SAMFORD,
county of SUFFOLK, 4 miles (S.) from Hadleigh, containing
262 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of
Norwich, rated in the king's books at £5.6. 8., endowed
with £210 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty,
and in the patronage of certain Feoffees. The church
is dedicated to St. Mary. The navigable river Stour
runs on the south-western side of the parish, where it
receives a small stream.