HENLEY, a village and a parish in Bosmere district, Suffolk. The village stands near an affluent of the river Deben, 2¾ miles ENE of Claydon r. station, and 4½ N of Ipswich; and has a post office under Ipswich. The parish comprises 1, 232 acres. Real property, £2, 438. Pop., 293. Houses, 65. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to the Rev. J. M. Theobald. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £95. * Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Norwich. The church is ancient and tolerable, with a tower. There are a Baptist chapel, a national school, and charities £6.

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