Place:


Higham Green  Suffolk

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Higham Green like this:

HIGHAM-GREEN, a hamlet-chapelry in Gazeley parish, Suffolk; on the Cambridge and Bury railway, at Higham r. station, 7¾ miles ENE of Newmarket. Post town, Gazeley, under Newmarket. Pop. in 1851, 343; in 1861, 407. Houses, 77. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £165.* Patron, Trinity Hall, Cambridge. The church is recent. There are a Baptist chapel and a British school.

Higham Green through time

Higham Green is now part of Forest Heath district. Click here for graphs and data of how Forest Heath has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Higham Green itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Higham Green, in Forest Heath and Suffolk | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/7288

Date accessed: 28th March 2024


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