HENHAM is a civil parish, united to Wangford for ecclesiastical purposes, 4 miles south-east from the Brampton station on the Ipswich and Lowestoft section of the Great Eastern railway, one mile north from Blythburgh station on the Southwold railway, 4 west-north-west from Southwold and 4 ½ east from Halesworth, in the Northern division of the county, hundred, petty sessional division and union of Blything and county court district of Halesworth. Henham Hall, the seat of the Earl of Stradbroke, is a stately mansion, erected in 1793, from the designs of James Wyatt, in place of the old Elizabethan house destroyed by fire in 1773, and has been greatly beautified under the direction of Edward M. Barry esq. R.A. who added terraces of Portland stone: the gardens are laid out in the Italian style, and there is a park of nearly 1,000 acres, containing many fine old oaks: the family of Rous, which is of great antiquity, was formerly of Stradbroke, whence they removed to the vicinity of Woodbridge and afterwards to Badingham; in the reign of Edward III. the head of the family married Miss Hobart, heiress of the Dennington estate, where they resided until 1545, when the Badingham estate was sold and Henham purchased by Sir Anthony Rous kt. The Earl of Stradbroke is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The soil is mixed; subsoil, various.

The children of this parish attend the school at Wangford.