sentences:  The village of Farnham gets its name from Old English where it means "Fern hemmed-in land" or "Fern homestead/village".The earliest known recording of the village of Farnham is from the Domesday Book, written in 1086, where it appears three times.Farnham was located in the Hundred of Plomesgate in the County of Suffolk and had a population of 18 households; 8 smallholders and 13 free men.