Layham

{{Short description|Village in Suffolk, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Use British English|date=June 2025}}

{{Infobox UK place

| official_name= Layham

| country= England

| region= East of England

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| coordinates = {{coord|52.028|0.966|display=inline,title}}

|static_image = St Andrews church Layham Suffolk.jpg

|static_image_caption = St Andrew's Church

| population= 589

| population_ref = (2011){{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11125493&c=IP7+5JS&d=16&e=62&g=6465629&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1442079945733&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|accessdate=12 September 2015}}

| post_town= Ipswich

| postcode_area= IP

| postcode_district= IP7

| dial_code=

| constituency_westminster= South Suffolk

| shire_county= Suffolk

| shire_district= Babergh

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Layham is a small village and a civil parish in southern Suffolk, England, situated between the town of Hadleigh and the neighbouring village of Raydon.

The civil parish contains the villages of Upper Layham and Lower Layham, separated by the River Brett. It is part of the Babergh district[http://www.babergh-south-suffolk.gov.uk/ Babergh District Council] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828044852/http://www.babergh-south-suffolk.gov.uk/ |date=2008-08-28 }} and falls within the South Suffolk parliamentary constituency.

It has a church, St Andrews,[http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/layham.htm Guide to St Andrew Church] and a public house, The Queen's Head, which are both situated in Lower Layham. More information on these and other aspects of Layham appear on the Parish Council's web site.[http://www.layham.org/ Layham Parish Council web site]

History

Layham is mentioned in the Little Domesday book.

{{Quote|"Æelfnoth held Layham from Harold TRETRE in Latin is Tempore Regis Edwardi. This means in the time of King Edward before the Battle of Hastings. as a manor with three carucates of land. Then as now 4 villans and 7 bordars. Then five slaves now six. Then as now 2 ploughs in demesne and two ploughs belonging to the men. Eleven acres of meadow, one horse, fifteen head of cattle, fifteen pigs, 100 sheep and nineteen goats. Then it was worth seventy shillings now 100 shillings. It is half a league long and a half broad four and a half pennies in geld. St Edmund had the soke."Domesday Book: A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 2003. {{ISBN|0-14-143994-7}} p.1290}}

Notable residents

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