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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Fornham like this:
FORNHAM, a sub-district in Thingoe district, Suffolk. It contains the three Fornham parishes, sixteen other parishes, and an extra-parochial tract. Acres, 32, 369. Pop., 5, 789. Houses, 1, 168.
This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Fornham by doing a full-text search here.
Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.
This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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Risby | 0 | 2 |
Hengrave | 1 | 2 |
Fornham All Saints | 0 | 2 |
Westley | 0 | 2 |
Flempton | 0 | 2 |
Little Saxham | 0 | 2 |
Chimney Mills | 0 | 2 |
Fornham St Genevieve | 1 | 2 |
Great Saxham | 1 | 5 |
Lackford | 0 | 4 |
Thingoe | 0 | 2 |
Barrow | 0 | 2 |
Horringer | 0 | 3 |
Fornham St Martin | 0 | 2 |
Bury St Edmunds | 41 | 2 |
Ickworth | 0 | 2 |
Hardwick | 0 | 2 |
Higham Green | 0 | 4 |
Timworth | 0 | 2 |
Culford | 3 | 2 |