WELNETHAM (Great), a parish in Thingoe district, Suffolk; at W. r. station, 3¾ miles SSE of Bury-St. Edmunds. It has a post-office under Bury-St. Edmunds, and a fair on Whit-Monday. Acres, 1,493. Real property, £2,835. Pop., 504. Houses, 116. The manor belongs to the Rev. Mr. Wenn. W. Hall was formerly the seat of Sir R. Gipps, and is now a farmhouse. A Crouched priory was here. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £405.* Patron, the Rev. Mr. Baldeley. The church was the church of the priory. There are a parochial school, and charities £10.

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