LAYHAM, a parish in Cosford district, Suffolk; on the river Brett, near the Hadleigh railway, 2 miles S by E of Hadleigh. Post town, Ipswich. Acres, 2, 488. Real property, £5, 041. Pop., 53 4. Houses, 113. The property is divided among a few. The manors of Overbury Hall and Netherbury Hall belong to J. F. Robinson, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £800. * Patron, St. John's College, Cambridge. The church was restored in 1861, at a cost of £1, 200. There are a national school and charities £4 16s.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))