'Barnham' is a village and
civil parish in the
St Edmundsbury district of
Suffolk,
England. It is about three miles south of
Thetford.According to
Eilert Ekwall the meaning of the village name is Beorn's homestead.The
Domesday Book records the population of Barnham in 1086 to be 36.The 2001 census indicates a population of 571.
From 1808 to 1814 Barnham hosted a station in the
shutter telegraph chain which connected the Admiralty in
London to its naval ships in the port of
Great Yarmouth.