BAYLEHAM, a parish in the hundred of BOSMERE-and-CLAYDON, county of SUFFOLK, 2 miles (S. by E.) from Needham-Market, containing 237 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £12. 4. 9., and in the patronage of N. Lee Acton, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. The Stow-Market and Ipswich canal bounds the parish on the north-east.