In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Fornham St Genevieve like this:
FORNHAM-ST. GENEVEVE, a parish in Thingoe district, Suffolk; on the river Lark, 3¼ miles N by W of Bury-St. Edmunds r. station. Post town, Fornham-All Saints, under Bury-St. Edmunds. Acres, 790. Real property, £962. Pop., 64. Houses, 14. Fornham House belonged formerly to the Duke of Norfolk, and belongs now to Lord Manners. ...
A sanguinary battle was fought within this parish, in 1173, between the troops of Henry II., commanded by Robert de Lacy, chief-justice of England, and those of Henry's rebellions son, under the Earl of Leicester. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Risby, in the diocese of Ely. The church was burned in 1782. Charities, £5.
Fornham St Genevieve through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Fornham St Genevieve, in St Edmundsbury and Suffolk | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
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Date accessed: 23rd April 2024
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