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.

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