DOWNHAM-SANTON, a parish in Thetford district, Suffolk; on the river Ouse and the Norfolk railway, at the boundary with Norfolk, 2¼ miles E of Brandon r. station. Post town, Brandon. Acres, 3, 860. Real property, £939. Pop., 81. Houses, 18. A sand-drift, in 1668, blowing hither from Lakeneath, overwhelmed upwards of 1, 500 acres of the land, and nearly choked the river. Downham Hall is the seat of Lord William Powlett. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ely. Value, £59. Patron, Dowager Duchess of Cleveland.

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