HITCHAM, a parish in Cosford district, Suffolk; near the river Bret, 1 ½ mile NNW of Bildeston, and 6¾ NW by N of Hadleigh r. station. Post town, Bildeston, under Ipswich. Acres, 4, 117. Real property, £6, 879. Pop., 991. Houses, 231. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £1, 000. Patron, the Crown. The church is later English, and has a carved roof and a tower. There are a Baptist chapel, a national school, and charities about £110. Burkitt, the commentator, was a native.

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