Great Glemham

Great Glemham is a village and a civil parish in the East Suffolk District, in the English county of Suffolk. The civil parish had a population of 224 at the 2011 Census.[1] It is a mile and a half from the A12 road. Great Glemham has a pub - The Crown Inn (the interior of which was used as a film location for the comedy series The Detectorists), a church and a village hall. It is located between the towns of Framlingham and Saxmundham.

All Saints' Church

The place-name 'Glemham' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Gl(i)emham and Glaimham. Eilert Ekwall comments: "The first element of the names is possibly Old English glēam 'merriment'... Glem, river-name, is no doubt a back-formation." By analogy with Glandford in Norfolk, 'Glemham' could mean 'village where sports were held'.[2]

Great Glemham House, the seat of the Earls of Cranbrook, is nearby.

References

  1. "Civil parish population 2011". Retrieved 15 September 2015.
  2. Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, pp. 198, 197.

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