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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Higham Green like this:
HIGHAM-GREEN, a hamlet-chapelry in Gazeley parish, Suffolk; on the Cambridge and Bury railway, at Higham r. station, 7¾ miles ENE of Newmarket. Post town, Gazeley, under Newmarket. Pop. in 1851, 343; in 1861, 407. Houses, 77. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £165.* Patron, Trinity Hall, Cambridge. The church is recent. There are a Baptist chapel and a British school.
Higham Green is now part of WEST SUFFOLK District. Click here for graphs and data of how WEST SUFFOLK has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Higham Green itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Higham Green, in West Suffolk and Suffolk | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/7288
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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