FELSHAM, a village and a parish in Stow district, Suffolk. The village stands 5½ miles S by E of Thurston r. station, and 7 W by S of Stowmarket; and has a post office under Bury St. Edmunds, and a fair on 16 Aug. The parish comprises 1, 630 acres. Real property, £2, 871. Pop., 394. Houses, 86. The property is much subdivided. Felsham Hall is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, not reported. Patron, the Rev. T. -Anderson. The church is good; and there is a Baptist chapel. There is a town and poor's estate, with £60 a year.

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