[2] The flint-built parish church of St Mary, though restored in 1886, dates from the late 14th Century and was likely built for William de Ufford.

Parham railway station, on the Framlingham Branch, was shut to passenger traffic in November 1952.

Between 1870 and 1872 John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer visited Parham and wrote the following as an entry for the parish.PARHAM, a village and a parish in Plomesgate district, Suffolk.

The village stands on the river Ore, adjacent to the Framlingham branch of the East Suffolk railway, 2¼ miles S S E of Framlingham; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Wickham-Market.

[4]The occupational structure (1881) of Parham was very agricultural based although there are a lot of 'unspecified' or 'unknown'.

There were 2 males employed in the conveyance of goods, men and messages, these people working as railway officials or servants.

The total number of the population in Parham, aged 16–71, that was in employment in 2001 was 132.

Since 1851, the population steadily declined, as seen in the graph, only rising again in 1951, after the baby boom after the second world war ended.

This number again rose and fell, during wartime Britain, ranging from a low in 1931 with only 80 houses, and raising back up to 97 in 1961.

[16] Using modern census data, from both 2001 and 2011, we can compare the village size with previous years, in the 2001 data we can see that the number of households in the village was 95, with 27 being 1 person households.

The rest of the town, which was only 6 people, identified as "white (Other)" This changed in the 2011 census, where, of the 263 people who lived in the village at the time, 253 identified as white British, which is a decrease to 96% of the population of Parham.