BLAKENHAM (Great), a parish in Bosmere district, Suffolk; on the river Gipping, and on the Eastern Union railway, ½ a mile NNW of Claydon station, and 3½ SSE of Needham-Market. It has a post office under Ipswich. Acres, 869. Real property, £1,759. Pop., 291. Houses, 57. The manor belonged to the Abbey of Bec in Normandy; and passed, in the time of Henry VI., to Eton college. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £166. Patron, Eton college. The church is good; and there is a Baptist chapel.

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