WALSHAM-LE-WILLOWS, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Stow district, Suffolk. The village stands 5 miles W by N of Finningham r. station, and 8½ NNW of Stowmarket; and has a post-office‡ under Bury-St. Edmunds, and a public hall and reading room. The parish comprises 2,800 acres. Real property, £5,656. Pop., 1,290. Houses, 282. The manor belongs to the Rev. T. B. Powell. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ely. Value, £93. Patron, T. M. Golding, Esq. The church is good. There are Independent and Baptist chapels, national schools, and charities £89.—The sub-district contains eleven parishes. Acres, 18,585. Pop., 5,990. Houses, 1,248.

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