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Aldeburgh
Coordinates: 52°09′N 1°36′E / 52.15°N 1.6°E / 52.15; 1.6
Aldeburgh ( /ˈɔːlbrə/) is a coastal town in Suffolk, East Anglia, England. Located on the River Alde, the town is notable for its Blue Flag shingle beach and fisherman huts where freshly caught fish are sold daily, and the Aldeburgh Yacht Club. The internationally renowned Aldeburgh Festival of arts, which takes place at nearby Snape Maltings, was created in 1948 by the resident and acclaimed composer Benjamin Britten.
A popular weekend destination, particular attractions are the ancient Moot Hall (where the town council still meets), Napoleonic-era Martello tower to the south, sheltered yachting marina at Slaughden, and two family run shops serving fish and chips, one of which is often cited as among the best fish and chip shops in the UK.
Alde Burgh means "old fort" although this structure, along with much of the Tudor town, has now been lost to the sea. In the 16th century, Aldeburgh was a leading port, and had a flourishing ship-building industry. Sir Francis Drake's ships Greyhound and Pelican (later renamed Golden Hind) were both built in Aldeburgh. The flagship of the Virginia Company, the Sea Venture is believed to have been built there in 1608. When the River Alde silted up and was unable to accommodate larger ships, the area went into decline. Aldeburgh survived principally as a fishing village until the nineteenth century, when it became popular as a seaside resort. Much of its distinctive and whimsical architecture derives from this period. The river is now home to a yacht club and a sailing club.

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Aldeburgh Festival
The Aldeburgh Festival is an English arts festival devoted mainly to classical music. It takes place each June in the Aldeburgh area of Suffolk, centred on the main concert hall at Snape Maltings. In 2007, the festival expanded to include the Faster Than Sound series which highlights experimental and electronic music, and 2010 saw the addition of yet another independent music event, TEDxAldeburgh.
The Festival was founded in 1948 by the composer Benjamin Britten, the singer Peter Pears and the librettist Eric Crozier. The original intention was to provide a home for their opera company, the English Opera Group, but the vision was soon widened to include readings of poetry, literature, drama, lectures and exhibitions of art. The first festival was held from the 5 June 1948 to the 13 June 1948 and used the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall, a few doors away from Britten's house in Crabbe Street, as its main venue. It featured a performance of Albert Herring by the English Opera Group; Britten's newly-written St. Nicolas cantata, op.42; and performances by Clifford Curzon and the Zorian String Quartet.

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Aldringham
Coordinates: 52°11′N 1°34′E / 52.18°N 01.56°E / 52.18; 01.56
Aldringham is a village in Suffolk, England. The village is located 1 mile (1½ km) south of Leiston and 3 miles (4½ km) northwest of Aldeburgh close to the North Sea coast. The parish includes the coastal village of Thorpeness. The mid-2005 population estimate for Aldringham cum Thorpe parish was 730.
Aldringham is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as 'Alrincham'. Its placename derivation is uncertain but Ekwall indicates that it probably means 'the home of Ealdhere' and any similarity to Aldeburgh is coincidental.
Aldringham was formerly a market town. The oldest building in the village is The Parrot and Punchbowl pub, which contains many references to its heavy involvement in smuggling in the two centuries after its opening in the sixteenth century.
Aldringham Windmill was dismantled in 1922 and re-erected in 1923 at Thorpeness.
Aldringham was the home of the poet, artist and architect Cecil Lay, and most of his architectural work is found in or near the village, including Raidsend, some houses on North Warren, and the chapel on Aldringham Heath.

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Badingham
Coordinates: 52°15′00″N 1°22′55″E / 52.25°N 1.382°E / 52.25; 1.382
Badingham is a village and civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal district of Suffolk in eastern England. In 2007 it had an estimated population of 470.
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Community website. Parish Council website.

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Bawdsey
Coordinates: 52°00′32″N 1°25′19″E / 52.009°N 1.422°E / 52.009; 1.422
Bawdsey is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, eastern England. Located near Felixstowe, it had an estimated population of 340 in 2007.
Bawdsey Manor is notable as the place where radar research took place early in World War II, before moving to Worth Matravers, which is four miles to the west of Swanage, in May 1940, and from there to Malvern, Worcestershire in 1942.
Bawdsley had both Chain Home and Chain Home Low early warning radar stations during World War II.
The World War Two defences constructed around Bawdsey Point have been documented. They included a number of pillboxes, landmines and flame fougasse installations. The beaches were protected with extensive barriers of scaffolding.

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Beccles
Coordinates: 52°27′04″N 1°34′28″E / 52.4512°N 1.5744°E / 52.4512; 1.5744
Beccles is a market town and civil parish in the Waveney District of the English county of Suffolk. The town is shown on the milestone as 109 miles (175 km) from London via the A145 Blythburgh and A12 road, 98 miles (158 km) northeast of London as the crow flies, 16 miles (26 km) southeast of Norwich, and 33 miles (53 km) north northeast of the county town of Ipswich. Nearby towns include Lowestoft to the east and Great Yarmouth to the northeast. The town lies on the River Waveney on the edge of The Broads National Park.
It had a population at the 2001 census of 9,746.Worlingham is a suburb of Beccles. The combined population of Beccles and Worlingham in 2005 was estimated at 13,580. Beccles is twinned with Petit-Couronne in France.
The name is conjectured to be derived from Becc-Liss* (Brittonic=Small-court). However, also offered is Bece-laes* (Old English=Meadow by Stream. Once a flourishing Saxon riverport, it lies in the Waveney valley and is a popular boating centre. The town was granted its Charter in 1584 by Elizabeth I.

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Benhall
Coordinates: 52°12′00″N 1°28′52″E / 52.2°N 1.481°E / 52.2; 1.481
Benhall is a village and civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal district of Suffolk, England. Located to the south of Saxmundham, in 2007 its population was estimated to be 560.
Benhall is split into two; one side of the A12 road is Benhall Low Street, whereas the other is Benhall Green. Benhall Green has a small primary school and a playgroup.
The manor of Benhall was granted in 1086 to Robert de Malet, and has since had a long and complicated history, having been owned by many of the most powerful people of their time, including King Henry VIII.
The great house of the area is Benhall Lodge. A manor house had existed on the Benhall estate since at least 1225, when it was fortified by Ralph de Sunderland. The property known as Benhall Lodge was originally created in 1638 for the then Lord of the Manor Sir Edward Duke, and was rebuilt in 1790 by William Beaumaris Rush, and then by Edward Hollond esq, in 1810. The mansion house has suffered serious fires in 1885 and in 1967, and was restored and slightly remodelled after each.

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Blaxhall
Coordinates: 52°09′40″N 1°27′36″E / 52.161°N 1.460°E / 52.161; 1.460
Blaxhall is a village and civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal district of Suffolk, England.Located around 8 miles (13 km) west of Aldeburgh, in 2007 its population was estimated to be 220.

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Blythburgh
Coordinates: 52°19′01″N 1°36′00″E / 52.317°N 1.6°E / 52.317; 1.6
Blythburgh is a small English village in an area known as the Sandlings, part of the Suffolk heritage coast. Located close to an area of flooded marshland and mud-flats, in 2007 its population was estimated to be 300. Blythburgh is best known for its church, Holy Trinity, internationally known as the Cathedral of the Marshes, which is a regular venue for the summer Aldeburgh Festival. The church has been flood-lit since the 1960s and is a landmark for travels on the arterial road to Norfolk.
Close to the village is the site of the Battle of Bulcamp (c. 653).
The milestone in the village shows it is thirty miles from Ipswich, and twenty-four miles south of Great Yarmouth, and is divided by the London trunk road.
The village is noteworthy for its huge area of flooded marshes which lead to the estuary of the River Blyth, the river flows from west of Halesworth to the North Sea between Southwold and Walberswick. Originally the river joined the sea at Dunwich (one of Parliament's rotten boroughs. Southwold is reached by the A1095, which crosses a causeway near Reydon. The causeway is claimed to have been built by the family of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, passing over Wolsey Creek, using Wolsey Bridge with views over the adjacent Hen Reedbeds bird reserve.

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Boulge
Coordinates: 52°07′34″N 1°17′38″E / 52.126°N 1.294°E / 52.126; 1.294
Boulge is a hamlet and civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal district of Suffolk, England. It is about 3 miles (5 km) north of Woodbridge.
Boulge church is the burial place of famous local poet/writer Edward Fitzgerald, whose most famous work was the translation The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

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Brandeston
Coordinates: 52°11′N 1°16′E / 52.19°N 01.27°E / 52.19; 01.27
Brandeston is a village in Suffolk, England on the River Deben. 'Brandeston Hall'the largest building in the village, is now the preparatory department of nearby Framlingham College. It was largely destroyed in a fire in 1847 and rebuilt as an exact replica by its then owner Charles Austin QC, who married Harriet Jane Ingilby of Ripley.
Other buildings in the village are the Queen's Head pub which is currently run by local man Greg Lochhead along with the mediaeval parish church of All Saints.
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Bredfield
Coordinates: 52°07′41″N 1°18′50″E / 52.128°N 1.314°E / 52.128; 1.314
Bredfield is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk. It is situated just off the A12, two miles north of Woodbridge. Another village, Dallinghoo, is to the north, and to the west is Boulge, a small hamlet. The population of Bredfield at the 2001 census was 308 (including 10 students living outside the village).
The historic building Bredfield House used to be situated in the village; however, it was damaged during World War II and has since been demolished. There is a historic chapel and a historic parish church.
Like many small villages, it was unable to sustain a shop, the last one closing in the 1980s. However, the villagers got together and started a community shop, initially in a portacabin but eventually moving into a purpose-built extension to the village hall.
There are several small businesses in the village, which is surrounded by farmland.

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Bromeswell
Coordinates: 52°04′59″N 1°22′01″E / 52.083°N 1.367°E / 52.083; 1.367
Bromeswell is a village and civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal district of Suffolk, England about 2 miles east of Woodbridge.
Bromeswell shows many of the characteristics of a traditional English village. It is one of the most secluded, beautiful spots in Suffolk. It contains many forests, a nature reserve, a spectacular boardwalk, lakes, and the Deben river runs through it.
Situated near the River Deben, Bromeswell lies on fairly high and fertile ground with low-lying heathland to the South and marshland to the West.
A mile to the south west is Sutton Hoo, the Ango-Saxon burial site situated alongside the River Deben.
The parish church of Bromeswell is situated in what is considered the centre of the village. The church has roots from several centuries ago, with a tower to the West, a vestry to the North and a South porch. The church consists of various additional features from various centuries.
Bromeswell lacks most public amenities but has a bus stop, functioning red telephone box, post box and traditional village inn, the Bromeswell Cherry Tree.

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Bruisyard
Coordinates: 52°15′00″N 1°25′01″E / 52.25°N 1.417°E / 52.25; 1.417
Bruisyard is a village in the valley of the River Alde in the county of Suffolk, England. The village has a population of ~175. The village sign depicts Saint Clare of the Order of the Poor Clares who had an abbey in Bruisyard until the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII (see below). The village sign was commissioned by the Parish Council in 2004 and made by the sculptor Anne Smith [1]. The construction of a new village hall on the Parish Park was completed in December 2009 with support from many funding bodies including the Big Lottery Fund. The village hall was formally opened in July 2010. The village hall has a stained glass window by the artist Sharon McMullin depicting the local flora and fauna, and nine low relief plaster panels by the sculptor Anne Smith showing past and present local scenes of which the central panel shows the Domesday book entry for Bruisyard (Buresiart).
Bruisyard village sign
There used to be a wine-making vineyard in Bruisyard but this closed in 2002 [2].

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Bucklesham
Coordinates: 52°01′59″N 1°15′00″E / 52.033°N 1.25°E / 52.033; 1.25
Bucklesham is a village and civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal district of Suffolk, England, a few miles east of Ipswich.
The village pub is The Shannon, named after Admiral Brooke's ship.
The village gave its name to HMS Bucklesham, a Ham class minesweeper.
The village boasts little conveniences, with only a school, a church, a village hall (shared with the neighbouring Foxhall) a number of houses and the previously mentioned pub to speak of. A small cottage - Shell Cottage - near St Mary's church was, in fact, the old school, and the names of the children can still be found written on the walls today. The newer school is larger than this, but still small by standards, with approximately 15 students per year group, and about 100 students in all. It, like the village, is very small. the village also has a playing field, popular with the village children and football team. The council has recently made updates to the field providing the children with new equipment, including swings and an obstacle course. Although a small village, Bucklesham certainly has a charming, rural feel about it, and you are always welcomed into the community.

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Campsea Ashe
Coordinates: 52°09′11″N 1°24′22″E / 52.153°N 1.406°E / 52.153; 1.406
Campsea Ashe (sometimes spelt Campsey Ash) is a village in Suffolk, England located approximately 5 miles (8 km) north east of Woodbridge and 6 miles (10 km) south west of Saxmundham.
The village is served by Wickham Market railway station on the Ipswich-Lowestoft East Suffolk Line.
It is recorded in the 1078 Domesday Book as two villages, the larger being Campesia and the other Esce.
Campsea is notable for its salerooms, run by Abbotts Auction Rooms, where a weekly auction dating from the early 1920s is held on Mondays.

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Capel St Andrew
Coordinates: 52°04′48″N 1°27′18″E / 52.080°N 1.455°E / 52.080; 1.455
Capel St Andrew is a village and a civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal district, in the county of Suffolk, England. It is near the larger settlement of Orford.
Capel St Andrew is close to the River Butley which is a tributary to the River Ore. A small ferry service runs from close to Capel St Andrew across the River Butley and gives cyclists and walkers easy access to Orford. To the East of the village lie the RSPB reserve at Boyton Marshes.
Capel St Andrew was referred to as Capeles in the Domesday Book which is derived from the Latin for "chapel". Despite being named after a church the village does not have a church anymore. The church was demolished between 1529 and 1553

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Charsfield
Coordinates: 52°08′53″N 1°18′22″E / 52.148°N 1.306°E / 52.148; 1.306
Charsfield is a small Suffolk village of approximately 250 residents, 3 miles (4.8 km) from Wickham Market, 7 miles (11 km) miles from Woodbridge and 12 miles (19 km) miles from Ipswich and is located near the villages of Debach and Dallinghoo. A Civil Parish in East Anglia, Charsfield was famously used as one of the key locations in the 1974 film Akenfield, based loosely upon the book Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by the historian Ronald Blythe (1969). Charsfield hosted the first Greenbelt festival - an annual festival of arts, faith and justice - on a pig farm just outside the village over the August 1974 bank holiday weekend. Famous Charsfield residents include Charles Webb, a respected Victorian architect and Peggy Cole, a frequent speaker on BBC's Radio Suffolk.
Charsfield Village Hall, (based in the small Suffolk village of Charsfield), was originally built during the 1930s as the result of a gift from W. H. Youngman. It has been in use ever since and is now owned by the Parish Council and managed by the Village Hall Management Committee. In recent years the hall has been enlarged at the back but more ambitious plans to bring it up to modern standards of comfort and convenience have been restricted by available funds.

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Chediston
Chediston is a village and a civil parish on the B1123 road, in the Suffolk Coastal District, in the English county of Suffolk. It is 2 miles W. of Halesworth, its post town. Chediston has a church. There is a dispersed settlement at Chediston Green lying about half a mile away from the church to the north.

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Coordinates: 52°20′N 1°28′E / 52.333°N 1.467°E / 52.333; 1.467

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Chillesford
Coordinates: 52°07′N 1°29′E / 52.12°N 1.48°E / 52.12; 1.48
Chillesford is a village and a civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal District, in the English county of Suffolk. It is located on the B1084 road Hertfords Place, which runs east to west. Chillesford is 3 miles northwest of the small town of Orford. It is 5 miles southwest of Aldeburgh and 6 miles south of Saxmundham. Population of around 120 and 60 houses. The village was recorded in Domesday as "Cesefortda".
In 1258, Thomas Weyland bought the Manor of Chillesford.
Amy Bantoff used to run the village shop but now closed and Mr Pratt, ran the local farm.
Chillesford has a pub, The Froize Inn (east end of B1084), which used to be two cottages.
A church (west end of B1084 - OS grid TM3852) has a tower and various other local buildings are made from local red crag bricks.
The old brickyard was where a 20m skeleton of a whale was also once found.
Pedlars Lane (heads north from the centre of the village) to Tunstall Chapel. Mill Lane (heads south and then south-west) which leads to Butley, Suffolk.

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Cockfield Hall
Cockfield Hall in Yoxford in Suffolk is a Grade I listed private house standing in 40 acres (160,000 m²) of historic parkland, dating from the 16th century. It was built by the Spring family, wealthy cloth merchants and later baronets of Pakenham.
Cockfield Hall takes it's name from the Cokefeud Family, established there at the beginning of the 14th century. It then passed to the Hopton Family, one of whom, Sir Arthur Hopton built the Gatehouses and North Wing in the mid 16th century and was said to have accompanied Henry VIII on the field of the Cloth of Gold. His successor, Sir Owen Hopton, was lieutenant of the Tower of London and as such, was ordered in October 1567 by Queen Elizabeth to take into custody at Cockfield so that she could recover from her privations, Lady Catherine Grey, sister of Lady Jane Grey and grand-daughter of Mary Tudor. She died there a year later and was buried in the Cockfield Chapel in Yoxford Church.
The Estate was subsequently sold to the Brook Family from whom it passed by marriage to Sir Charles Blois, Baronet of Grundisburgh who came to live at Cockfield in 1686, from when the house remained in the Blois family's ownership until 1997. The main part of the house had sash windows installed in the 18th century and in 1896 the Victorian Great Hall was created on the site of the original Tudor Hall in the Jacobean style.

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Cransford
Cransford is a village and a civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal District, in the English county of Suffolk. It is near the small town of Framlingham. Cransford has 2 places of worship.

Coordinates: 52°13′49″N 1°23′52″E / 52.2303°N 1.3978°E / 52.2303; 1.3978

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Cratfield
Coordinates: 52°16′01″N 1°31′48″E / 52.267°N 1.53°E / 52.267; 1.53
Cratfield is a village in northern Suffolk, England.
Neighbouring villages include Laxfield, Metfield, Cookley, Huntingfield, Heveningham. The nearest town, Halesworth, is approximately 5 miles (8 km) away. Southwold is a popular, nearby coastal town. The market town of Framlingham is also close by.
Cratfield is a small farming and residential community. It currently has no shop, but has a pub, The Cratfield Poacher, and several bed and breakfast hotels. Cratfield is also home to St Mary's Church (15th/16th century) — built of flint, mainly Perpendicular and noted particularly for its very fine font.
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Cretingham
Coordinates: 52°07′N 1°10′E / 52.11°N 1.16°E / 52.11; 1.16
Cretingham is a village and a civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal District, in the English county of Suffolk. It is on the River Deben, 2 miles south off the A1120 road. It is four miles west from Framlingham and eight miles northwest from Woodbridge.

It is based on a crossroad, The Street (north-south) and Framsden Road (west) and Brandeston Road (east).
Located in the old Hundred of Loes (hundred) and Domesday's name of Gretingeham" or "Gretingaham".
St Peter's church is half the way up the north part of The Street.
During renovation work on a hunting lodge near Aldeburgh in 1996, a carpenter uncovered a plank of wood revealing a chilling penciled message: "A fearful murder was committed the first day of this month (October 1887) at Cretingham. A curate cut the vicars throat at 12 oclock at night." Shiela Hardy wrote a book about it (ISBN 9780752448954)
The old Bell Inn is now a dwelling called Dial House. The new Bell pub opened in 1967 located at the crossroads and dates from 1620s and was formerly four cottages.

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Culpho
Coordinates: 52°05′46″N 1°13′30″E / 52.096°N 1.225°E / 52.096; 1.225
Culpho (pronounced Cul-fo) is a hamlet of about 40 people standing just outside Grundisburgh, Suffolk, about four miles west of Woodbridge. Its nearest villages are Great Bealings and Playford. It is big enough to have its own church, St Botolphs, which is part of a shared benefice with Great Bealings, Little Bealings and Playford.
In 1280 an abbey was erected here on behalf of the monks of Leiston Abbey but this has long been demolished and a farmhouse now stands in its place.
Culpho is one of the Thankful Villages - those very rare places that suffered no fatalities in the Great War of 1914 to 1918.
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Dallinghoo
Coordinates: 52°08′46″N 1°18′43″E / 52.146°N 1.312°E / 52.146; 1.312
Dallinghoo is a village some 3 miles (4.5 km) north of Woodbridge, Suffolk, England. Formed from Church Road (west) and Pound Hill to the south and branches NE after the centre of the village.
Its church was originally a large building with a central tower but the chancel has since been destroyed. The Church also had connections with nearby Letheringham Abbey.
Dallinghoo is also the birthplace of Francis Light, founder of Penang in Malaysia and father of William Light who founded Adelaide in Australia.
Dallinghoo Village Hall (TM2654) is off Pound Hill a little north of the village.
The Oldest and most important house in Dallinghoo is Whitehouse Farm.
Dallinghoo Hall (TM2754) is 1 km SE from the village.
Dallinghoo has featured in the press in 2009 after £500,000 worth of Iceni gold coins were found in a field.
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Darsham
Coordinates: 52°16′01″N 1°31′48″E / 52.267°N 1.53°E / 52.267; 1.53
Darsham is a village in Suffolk, England. It is located approximately 4 miles (6 km) north east of Saxmundham. The village is bypassed by the A12 and is served by Darsham railway station, which is approximately one mile away from the village centre, on the Ipswich-Lowestoft East Suffolk Line.
The name of the village of Darsham derives from Deores Ham — home of the deer. This name is borne out by early reference to local roadways as chaseways. There was hunting in this area as late as the 18th century. Darsham is a mixed community with six farms. The village still has a pub The Fox, however over the past few years the village has lost its school, shop and post office.
The garage on the A12, now primarily a petrol station, has a cafe and a shop. There is also a farm shop, a hand made tile factory, a pottery, a builder, an irrigation contractor, a plant nursery, seed and feed merchants, a national chain roadside-restaurant and a cafe. A private nursing home and a cycle hire business provide a service for those who require it.

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Debach
Debach is a small village about 4 miles northwest of Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK. At the time of the Domesday Book, 1086, it was called Debenbeis or Debeis, Depebecs, Debec or Debes and located in the Hundred of Wilford. The book lists the landowners there at that time as Count Alan, Roger Bigot - the Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, and Sturstan son of Widdow and Roger de Poitou from him, The Bishop of Bayeux, William de Warenne, Geoffrey de Mandeville and Ranulph Peveril. There were 9.5 households in the village and the taxable value to the lord at that time was £0.2. The survey recorded that the village's resources included an acre of meadow, one church and 0.06 acres of church land.
In 1066 Edric Grimm had been the overlord of Debach.[1]
The 2001 census recorded 30 households in the village with a total population of 75. The population was estimated to consist of 80 people in 2005. These figures were notably smaller than those recorded in 19th century censuses:- in 1801 the population of Debach was 117, in 1851 there was a total population of 113 in 25 households and in 1881 a total of 138 people lived there in 29 households with about 66% of those whose occupation was recorded being employed directly in agriculture. The population peaked at 140 in 1901 and 1911 and was still 127 in 1951 but fell dramatically by 1961 to 90.

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Dennington
Coordinates: 52°13′17″N 1°20′28″E / 52.22146°N 1.34101°E / 52.22146; 1.34101
Dennington is a small village in Suffolk, England, just north of Framlingham along the A1120 Bypass.

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Dunwich
Coordinates: 52°16′37″N 1°37′36″E / 52.27688°N 1.62672°E / 52.27688; 1.62672
Dunwich ( /ˈdʌnɨtʃ/) is a village and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk. It is located in the Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB around 92 miles (148 km) north-east of London, 9 miles (14 km) south of Southwold and 7 miles (11 km) north of Leiston on the North Sea coast. Its population at the 2001 census was 84.
Dunwich was the capital of East Anglia 1500 years ago but the harbour and most of the town have since disappeared due to coastal erosion. Its decline began in 1286 when a storm surge hit the East Anglian coast, and it was eventually reduced in size to the village it is today.
Since the 15th century, Dunwich has frequently been identified with Dommoc – the original seat of the Anglo-Saxon bishops of the Kingdom of East Anglia established by Sigeberht of East Anglia for Saint Felix in c. 629–31. Dommoc was the seat of the bishops of Dommoc until around 870, when the East Anglian kingdom was taken over by the initially pagan Danes. Years later antiquarians would even describe Dunwich as being the 'former capital of East Anglia'. However, many historians now prefer to locate Dummoc at Walton Castle, which was the site of a Saxon shore fort.

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Earl Soham
Coordinates: 52°13′N 1°16′E / 52.22°N 01.26°E / 52.22; 01.26
Earl Soham is a small settlement in Suffolk, England. It is on the A1120 road and is 4 kilometres (2 mi) west of the town of Framlingham.
The manor of Earl Soham once belonged to the Earls of Norfolk, the Bigod family (sometimes spelt "Bigot" in old texts), who also owned nearby Framlingham Castle. Edward 1st granted Roger Bigod permission to ho ld a market and a (lamb and stock) fair in the village. The church dates from about 1320 (chancel) with the nave dated to about 1470 (Kelly's Suffolk Directory 1900). The Baptist Chapel was built around 1863. The school was first built in 1850. Earl Soham Lodge was originally a hunting lodge, built in the 13th century, but rebuilt in 1789. For many years it was the seat of the Cornwallis family. The population of the village peaked in the 1800s with over 750 inhabitants. Today there are about 360 adults on the Electoral Register, with about 100 children. The 1844 Directory lists many trades/craftsmen - most of the occupations having now long since disappered from the village. These included: Corn dealer, Corn millers, Blacksmiths, Boot & Shoe makers, Grocers & Drapers, Joiners, Turners, Wheelwrights, Surgeon, Thatcher, Maltster, Saddler, Watchmaker, Glover, Whip maker & Hairdresser (the same person!), Tailors, Clergy, School master and mistress - and, of course, Farmers.

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East of England
The East of England is one of the nine official regions of England. It was created in 1994 and was adopted for statistics from 1999. It includes the ceremonial counties of Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. Essex has the highest population in the region.
Its population as of the 2001 census was 5,388,140.^{[citation needed]} The area is mostly low-lying, and the highest place is the top of the Dunstable Downs at 243 m (797 ft).^{[citation needed]}Norwich, Peterborough, Luton and Southend-on-Sea are the region's most populous urban areas. The southern part of the region lies in the London commuter belt.
The area is one of the flattest in the UK. Cambridgeshire is part of The Fens. The lowest point in the UK is Holme Fen, which is 3 metres below sea level.
Before the creation of the East of England region there had been a smaller standard statistical region of East Anglia which did not include Essex, Hertfordshire or Bedfordshire. They had previously been included in the South East region. The East of England civil defence region shared the boundaries of the current region.

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England
England ⁱ/ˈɪŋɡlənd/ is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, while the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separate it from continental Europe. Most of England comprises the central and southern part of the island of Great Britain in the North Atlantic. The country also includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.
The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Palaeolithic period, but it takes its name from the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in AD 927, and since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century, has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world. The English language, the Anglican Church, and English law—the basis for the common law legal systems of many other countries around the world—developed in England, and the country's parliamentary system of government has been widely adopted by other nations. The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-century England, transforming its society into the world's first industrialised nation. England's Royal Society laid the foundations of modern experimental science.

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Eyke
Eyke is a village and a civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal District, in the English county of Suffolk. It is located on the A1152 road near the town of Woodbridge. Eyke has a primary school, a place of worship and a pub.

http://www.eykevillage.co.uk
Coordinates: 52°06′N 1°23′E / 52.1°N 1.383°E / 52.1; 1.383

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Falkenham
Falkenham is a village and a civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal District, in the English county of Suffolk. It is located near the village of Kirton and the towns of Ipswich and Felixtowe. The parish contains the hamlets of Falkenham Sink and Lower Falkenham. The village has a church called St Ethelbert, Falkenham. For transport there is the A14 road nearby. There is also some marshs called the Falkenham Marshs which are on the River Deben.

At the time of the Norman Conquest the manor of Walton was linked with that of Falkenham.

Dommoc#Felixstowe
http://www.achurchnearyou.com/falkenham-st-ethelbert/ http://www.kirton-suffolk.info/history/history.html
Coordinates: 52°00′N 1°21′E / 52°N 1.35°E / 52; 1.35

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Felixstowe
Coordinates: 51°57′40″N 1°21′27″E / 51.9610°N 1.3576°E / 51.9610; 1.3576
Felixstowe is a seaside town on the North Sea coast of Suffolk, England. The town gives its name to the nearby Port of Felixstowe, which is the largest container port in the United Kingdom. The town is situated across the estuary of the River Orwell and the River Stour from Harwich in Essex.
A village has stood on the site since long before the Norman conquest^{[citation needed]} The early history of Felixstowe, including its Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Norman and medieval defences, is told under the name of Walton, because the name Felixstowe was given retrospectively, during the 13th century, to a place which had already been important for well over a thousand years.^{[citation needed]}
It continued as a linchpin in England's defence, as proved when in 1667 Dutch soldiers landed near the Fludyers area and failed to capture Landguard Fort. The town only became a major port in 1886. In addition to shipping, tourism increased, and a pier was constructed in 1905 which is still running well to this day. Indeed, during the late Victorian period (after circa 1880) it became a fashionable resort, a trend initiated by the opening of Felixstowe railway station, the pier, (see above) and a visit by the German imperial family. It remained so until the late 1930s. In 1953, at least 48 people died in the town in the North Sea flood.

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Framlingham
Coordinates: 52°13′19″N 1°20′36″E / 52.22207°N 1.34342°E / 52.22207; 1.34342
Framlingham is a market town and civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal District of Suffolk, England. Commonly referred to as "Fram" by the locals, it is of Anglo-Saxon origin and is mentioned in the Domesday Book. It has a population of 3,114 at the 2001 census. Nearby villages include Earl Soham, Kettleburgh, Parham, Saxtead, and Sweffling.
Framlingham has a conservation area. The town is home to the summer arts festival Arts Framlingham, Framlingham Castle, the comprehensive secondary school Thomas Mills High School, the independent school Framlingham College, St Michael the Archangel church and Framlingham Town football club. It is also home to the two oldest working post office pillar boxes in the UK which date from 1856 and can be seen at Double Street and College Road.^{[citation needed]}
It is also home to one of the smallest houses in Britain known as "The Check House". Converted into a two-storey residence of almost 29 square metres, the former bookmakers office is in the Mauldens Mill Estate in the town centre. The ground floor measures 6.1m x 2.2m.

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Friston
Coordinates: 52°11′24″N 1°31′41″E / 52.190°N 1.528°E / 52.190; 1.528
Friston is a village in Suffolk, England. It is 3 miles (5 km) southeast of Saxmundham, its post town, and 4 miles (6 km) northwest of Aldeburgh. The River Alde bounds the village on the south. The surrounding land is chiefly arable. The soil becomes partly marshy in the lower grounds. The village is noted for its early nineteenth century post mill.
Its name is recorded in the Domesday Book as Frisetuna and seems to come from Anglo-Saxon Frīsa tūn = "the farmstead of the Frisians"; some of them may have come with the Angles and Saxons.
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Gedgrave
Coordinates: 52°05′02″N 1°30′36″E / 52.084°N 1.510°E / 52.084; 1.510
Gedgrave is a small village and civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal district of Suffolk in eastern England. In 2005 its population was 30. It shares a parish council with nearby Orford.

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Great Bealings
Coordinates: 52°05′38″N 1°15′25″E / 52.094°N 1.257°E / 52.094; 1.257
Great Bealings is a small village in Suffolk, England. It has about 310 people living in it, in around 120 households. Its nearest towns are Ipswich (6 miles (9.7 km) away) and Woodbridge (2.6 miles (4.2 km)). Nearby villages include Little Bealings, Playford, Culpho, Hasketon and Grundisburgh. The village does not have an obvious centre, and the population is split between two areas — one around Lower Street to the East of the village, and the other at Boot Street/Grundisburgh Road to the West of the village. St Mary's, the village church, is about in the middle of these two centres of population.
The village shares a playing field with Little Bealings, which is located behind the joint Village Hall, and includes a grassed plateau, a fenced and hard surfaced multi-sports court, children's play equipment, and a boules piste. It is named after John Ganzoni, Lord Belstead, who lived in the village for many years, and whose Charitable Trust Fund supported the project.

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Great Glemham
Great Glemham is a village and a civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal District, in the English county of Suffolk. It is a few miles away from the A12 road. Great Glemham has a pub and two places of worship. It is located between the towns of Framlingham and Saxmundham.
Coordinates: 52°12′N 1°26′E / 52.2°N 1.433°E / 52.2; 1.433

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Grundisburgh
Coordinates: 52°06′45″N 1°14′46″E / 52.11241°N 1.2462°E / 52.11241; 1.2462
Grundisburgh is a village of more than 1,530 residents situated in the English county of Suffolk. It is in the Suffolk Coastal district, six miles north-east from Ipswich and four miles north-west of Woodbridge located on the B1079. Flowing through the village are the rivers Lark and Gull. The village is recorded in the Domesday Book as "Grundesbur", "Grundesburg", "Grundesburh" or "Grundesburc".
The village has a primary school, a Church of England church and a Baptist chapel as well as one pub, the Dog. The Grundisburgh and District News is a newspaper which is published by volunteers every two months and provides news for Grundisburgh and the surrounding villages and hamlets. There are two fords in the village. The village is the setting for A Wicked Deed by Susanna Gregory.
Grundisburgh Primary School is a medium sized school with 131 pupils at the time of the last Ofsted inspection. It is located in a modern building in Alice Driver Road which was built in 1989 after spending 115 years at the Old School next to St Mary's Church. The Old School building has now been converted into affordable housing, which was opened by John Gummer MP in July 1994.

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Hacheston
Hacheston is a village and a civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal District, in the English county of Suffolk. It is located on the B1116 road between the towns of Wickham Market and Framlingham. Hacheston has a church and a village hall; it once had a railway station called Hacheston Halt railway station, but that was closed on 3 Nov 1952. In late July an annual outdoor music festival called Hachfest showcases local talent.
Coordinates: 52°10′58″N 1°22′31″E / 52.1827°N 1.3753°E / 52.1827; 1.3753

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Halesworth
Coordinates: 52°20′31″N 1°30′22″E / 52.342°N 1.506°E / 52.342; 1.506
Halesworth is a small market town (population of around 6,000) in the northeastern corner of Suffolk, England. It is located 15 miles (24 km) south west of Lowestoft, and stands on a small tributary of the River Blyth, 9 miles (14 km) upstream from Southwold. The town is served by Halesworth railway station on the Ipswich-Lowestoft East Suffolk Line. Halesworth is twinned with both Bouchain in France and Eitorf in Germany.
A Roman settlement, Halesworth has a medieval church; St Mary's with Victorian additions and a variety of houses, from early timber-framed buildings to the remnants of Victorian prosperity. Former almshouses used to house the Halesworth & District Museum (open from May to September) but this has now been moved to Halesworth railway station. The Town Trail walk provides opportunity to discover the history of Halesworth.
Halesworth is primarily centred on a pedestrianised, shopping street known as the Thoroughfare. "Thoroughfare" is an East Anglian term for the main street of a town - what would be commonly known elsewhere in the UK as the "high street". Each year the Thoroughfare hosts a popular food, drink and craft fair, termed the "Thoroughfair", to raise money for good causes.

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Hasketon
Coordinates: 52°06′29″N 1°16′54″E / 52.10818°N 1.28156°E / 52.10818; 1.28156
Hasketon is a small village in Suffolk, England.
Its church, St. Andrews, is one of 38 existing round-tower churches in Suffolk. St. Andrews stands more or less at the centre of its scattered parish, and is set in a tree-shaded churchyard which, in 1845, had been planted with beech, fir and elm.
There has been a church at this place for more than 900 years. This ancient church contains craftsmanship from many periods. From what can be seen and derived from what little documentary evidence is available, the history of this church is as follows:
The 11th century: The earliest part of the present church is the nave, where evidence of late Saxon or early Norman work in the layered masonry with which parts of the walls are faced can be found. There is also a little herring-bone masonry in the south wall, where there remains a tiny blocked window of this date. Clearly the core of the nave dates from the period just before or just after the Norman Conquest of 1066.

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Hemley
Hemley is a village and a civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal District, in the English county of Suffolk. It is located near the River Deben. Nearby settlements include the large town of Ipswich and the villages of Waldringfield and Newbourne. Hemley has a place of worship. In 2001 the population of the civil parish of Hemley was 66.
Coordinates: 52°01′56″N 1°19′48″E / 52.0323°N 1.3300°E / 52.0323; 1.3300

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Hen Reedbeds
Hen Reedbeds is national reserve near Southwold in the in the county of Suffolk, England. Suffolk Wildlife Trust owns and manages this reserve. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), Natura 2000 site, a National Nature Reserve and a Ramsar Site. It is 135 acres (55 hectares).

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Henham Park
Henham Park is an estate just north of the village of Blythburgh in Suffolk, England. It lies at the intersection of the A12 and A145 main roads. The current owner is Keith Rous, sixth Earl of Stradbroke, "The Aussie Earl".
Sir Anthony Rous, Knight of Dennington (Suffolk), purchased Henham in 1544. At this time there was a large red-brick Tudor manor on the park, which was burnt down in 1773 while the sixth Baronet John Rous was away. Sir John, later the first Earl of Stradbroke, built a new hall in 1790 using the architect James Wyatt with accompanying parkland design by Humphrey Repton. The building was updated in 1858 by architect Edward Barry to give it a Victorian gloss: the work was carried out by Lucas Brothers.
This hall was demolished by the fourth Earl of Stradbroke in 1953 despite attempts by his brother, later the fifth Earl, to keep the house intact.
The fourth Earl died in 1983 with his brother becoming the fifth Earl for only four days before also passing away. Robert Keith Rous – at that time a businessman and sheep grazier in Australia – then inherited Henham and became the sixth Earl of Stradbroke. This was, however, not without difficulty and a protracted court battle led to a family feud that still separates the Rous family to this day.

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Herm
Herm (Guernésiais: Haerme) is the smallest of the Channel Islands that is open to the public and is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey. Cars are banned from the small island just like its Channel Island neighbour, Sark. Unlike Sark, bicycles are also banned. However, Herm does allow quad bikes and tractors for the locals.
Herm won the 2002 and 2008 Britain in Bloom competition in the 'Small Coastal Resort' category.
Herm was occupied in prehistoric times; the remains of Neolithic chamber tombs have been found on the island.
The first records of Herm's inhabitants in historic times are from the 6th century, when the island became a centre of monastic activity; the name 'Herm' supposedly derives from hermits who settled there (although an alternative interpretation derives Herm from Norse erm referring to an arm-like appearance of the island). However, the monks suffered from the inclement Atlantic; in 709, a storm washed away the strip of land which connected the island with the small uninhabited island of Jethou.

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Heveningham
Coordinates: 52°18′04″N 1°25′16″E / 52.301°N 1.421°E / 52.301; 1.421
Heveningham is a village and civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located four miles south-west of Halesworth, in 2005 it had a population of 120.
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Hollesley
Coordinates: 52°02′56″N 1°25′48″E / 52.049°N 1.430°E / 52.049; 1.430
Hollesley is a village and civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located on the Bawdsey peninsula five miles south-east of Woodbridge, in 2005 it had a population of 1,400.
Hollesley Bay Prison is located nearby.

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Iken
Coordinates: 52°08′50″N 1°31′40″E / 52.1472°N 1.5277°E / 52.1472; 1.5277
Iken is a small village and civil parish in the marshlands of the English county of Suffolk.
It is near the estuary of the River Alde on the North Sea coast and is located south east of Snape and due north of Orford.
The Anchorage, formerly an island in what was a marsh at the edge of the estuary, is the most likely site of Saint Botolph's Abbey, Ikenhoe. During excavations in 1977 Dr Stanley West discovered part of a large stone Saxon cross incorporated into the wall of the Church tower. The Cross was carved with the heads of dogs and wolves, symbols which were traditionally recognised as St Botolph's emblems during the Middle Ages and therefore it is thought that the cross may originally have been a memorial to him.

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Ipswich
Ipswich ⁱ/ˈɪpswɪtʃ/ is a large town and a non-metropolitan district. It is the county town of Suffolk, England. Ipswich is located on the estuary of the River Orwell. Nearby towns are Felixstowe, Needham Market and Stowmarket in Suffolk and Harwich and Colchester in Essex.
The town of Ipswich overspills the borough boundaries significantly, with 85% of the town's population living within the borough at the time of the 2001 Census, when it was the third-largest settlement in the United Kingdom's East of England region, and the 49th largest urban area in the United Kingdom.
The modern name is derived from the medieval name 'Gippeswick', probably taken from the River Gipping which is the non-tidal section of the River Orwell. As of 2007, the borough of Ipswich is estimated to have a population of approximately 128,000 inhabitants.
Under the Roman empire, the area around Ipswich formed an important route inland to rural towns and settlements via the rivers Orwell and Gipping.^{[citation needed]} A large Roman fort, part of the coast defences of Britain, stood at Walton near Felixstowe (13 miles, 21 km), and the largest Roman villa in Suffolk (possibly an administrative complex) stood at Castle Hill (north-west Ipswich).

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Jarrolds
Jarrolds is a large, family run department store in Norwich, England. It is situated at the corner of Exchange Street and London Street. The business was founded in 1770 in Woodbridge, Suffolk, moving to Norwich in 1823. The current building was designed by George John Skipper (1856–1948) between 1903-5. Nikolaus Pevsner describes it as baroque in style.
The Jarrold department store has been through a major refurbishment on its ground floor. Its main rivals in the city are the John Lewis Partnership and House of Fraser department stores.
It is a part of the Jarrold and Sons group of companies, which includes Jarrold Properties and previously included Jarrold Publishing prior to its sale to Sutton Publishing.
The company sponsored the construction of a new stand at Norwich City F.C.'s Carrow Road football ground, now known as The Jarrold Stand, and the original 4-year sponsorship deal has now been extended through to 2013.
Coordinates: 52°37′45″N 1°17′37″E / 52.6291°N 1.2935°E / 52.6291; 1.2935

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Kelsale cum Carlton
Kelsale cum Carlton is a civil parish in the English county of Suffolk. Situated to the north of Saxmundham, the parish includes in addition to Kelsale and Carlton villages and hamlets such as Dorley's Corner, Curlew Green, East Green and North Green within its boundaries.
In Kelsale village centre there is an Old Guildhall of 1495 that is now used as a training centre, and up on the hill the Parish Church of St Mary and St Peter has a distinctive Lych gate. Inside there is an elaborate pulpit dated before 1631 and a statue of Samuel Clouting by Thomas Thurlow of Saxmundham. Kelsale has a Primary School.
Carlton is immediately north of Saxmundham and is the location for all the larger businesses based at the Carlton Park Industrial Estate. Adjoining this is the Carlton Park Sports ground which is owned by Saxmundham Sports Club, also the location of the Carlton Park Caravan Site. Also on the Carlton Park is Carlton Hall former home of Richard Garrett III who is buried there in the churchyard. The Church of St Peter has a brick tower set amongst arable land in the grounds of Carlton Park. Prominent on the skyline is a disused Tower mill.

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Kesgrave
Coordinates: 52°03′46″N 1°14′16″E / 52.0629°N 1.2379°E / 52.0629; 1.2379
Kesgrave is a small town in the English county of Suffolk on the northern edge of Ipswich.
The town was recorded as Gressgrava in the Domesday Book, by the late 15th century its name had become Kesgrave. Kesgrave remained a small agricultural settlement with just a church, inn and a few farmsteads for over 700 years. In 1921 the population was only 103 housed in 20 dwellings. Since then great changes have taken place.
By 1988 Kesgrave covered an area of more than 80,000 acres (320,000,000 m²). Kesgrave parish council officially adopted the title of a town in January 2000.
Kesgrave High School is a large 11-18 comprehensive co-educational school with nearly 2000 pupils. A study for Sustrans noted that 61% of the pupils cycled to the school. This is largely due to the installation of a large cycle lane through the housing estate and along the main road. The school actively encourages walking or cycling and provides bicycle storage facilities.

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Kettleburgh
Kettleburgh is a small village in the Suffolk Coastal district, in the county of Suffolk. Kettleburgh has a church called St Andrews church and a pub. It is near the small towns of Wickham Market and Framlingham.
Coordinates: 52°11′N 1°19′E / 52.183°N 1.317°E / 52.183; 1.317

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Knodishall
Coordinates: 52°12′N 1°33′E / 52.2°N 1.55°E / 52.2; 1.55
Knodishall is a village in Suffolk, England. The village is located 3.5 miles (6 km) southeast of Saxmundham and 1 mile (2 km) southwest of Leiston, its post town. Most of the village is now in Coldfair Green, with only a few houses remaining in the original village by the parish church of St Lawrence.
The village is dispersed and close to both Leiston and Aldeburgh. It has a village shop, a pub The Butchers Arms, a smallholding, garage and Coldfair Green Primary School. The village expanded with the building of a small housing estate in the mid 1980s.

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Leiston
Coordinates: 52°12′22″N 1°34′44″E / 52.206°N 1.579°E / 52.206; 1.579
Leiston is a town in eastern Suffolk, England. It is situated near Saxmundham and Aldeburgh, about 2 miles (3.2 km) from the North Sea coast and is 21 miles (34 km) northeast of Ipswich and 90 miles (140 km) northeast from London. The town had a population of 6,240 at the 2001 Census.
The 14th Century remains of Leiston Abbey lie northwest of the town.
Leiston thrived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a manufacturing town dominated by Richard Garrett & Sons, owners of the "Leiston Works". This firm made steam tractors and a huge variety of cast and machined metal products, including munitions during both world wars. The works closed in 1981 and the site was reused as a mixture of housing, flats and industrial uses. The Long Shop Museum, showing the history, vehicles and products of the works, remains as a heritage tourist attraction.
During World War II, RAF Leiston, 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of the town in the neighbouring village of Theberton, sent fighter squadrons of the American 357th Fighter Group to fight the Luftwaffe. Famous American test pilot and fighter ace General Chuck Yeager (who, later, first broke the sound barrier) flew out of RAF Leiston. The Friends of Leiston Airfield hold a memorial service and flying display at the end of May each year, with veterans and their families attending.

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Letheringham
Coordinates: 52°10′20″N 1°19′27″E / 52.172247°N 1.324282°E / 52.172247; 1.324282
Letheringham is a sparsely populated civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal (former Deben Rural District) in Suffolk, England, on the Deben River.
St Mary is a tiny church, the remains of the tower and nave of a Priory church, and sits in a farmyard. It is open 24 hours a day.

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Levington
Levington is a small village in the Suffolk Coastal District, in the county of Suffolk. Levington has a church called St Peters Church and a pub. It is near the large town of Ipswich and the village of Nacton. A viking ship was once found in Levington.

Coordinates: 52°00′N 1°15′E / 52°N 1.25°E / 52; 1.25

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Linstead Magna
Coordinates: 52°20′24″N 1°24′22″E / 52.340°N 1.406°E / 52.340; 1.406
Linstead Magna is a civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal district of Suffolk in eastern England. In 2005 its population was 60. It shares a parish council with nearby Chediston and Linstead Parva.

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Linstead Parva
Coordinates: 52°20′56″N 1°25′37″E / 52.349°N 1.427°E / 52.349; 1.427
Linstead Parva is a small village and civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal district of Suffolk in eastern England. In 2005 its population was 90, making it larger than neighbouring Linstead Magna. It shares a parish council with Linstead Magna and nearby Chediston.

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Little Bealings
Coordinates: 52°05′04″N 1°15′11″E / 52.0844°N 1.253°E / 52.0844; 1.253
Little Bealings is a village in Suffolk, England. It has a population of approximately 470 people living in around 185 households. Its nearest towns are Ipswich (5.1 miles (8.2 km) away) and Woodbridge (3.1 miles (5.0 km) away). Nearby villages include Great Bealings, Playford, Culpho, Martlesham and Grundisburgh.
The village is centred around its public house, the Admiral's Head, and also contains a village school, a village hall and a meeting room called the Angela Cobbold Memorial Hall.
Until 1956 the village had an active railway station. This was closed as part of the 1950s rail closure programme, prior to the Beeching Axe. The station is now used as commercial office premises. The railway line running through the station remains active, as part of the Ipswich to Lowestoft line, and crosses the main street at an automatic level crossing.
Little Bealings' church is All Saints, part of a shared benefice with Great Bealings, Playford and Culpho.

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Little Glemham
Little Glemham is a small village on the A12 road (England), in the Suffolk Coastal District, in the county of Suffolk. Nearby settlements include the town of Wickham Market and the village of Marlesford. Little Glemham has a church called St Andrew Church, a pub and a hall called Glemham Hall. The corresponding village of Great Glemham is a few miles away.
Coordinates: 52°10′25″N 1°25′19″E / 52.1737°N 1.4220°E / 52.1737; 1.4220

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London
London ⁱ/ˈlʌndən/ is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who named it Londinium. London's ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
London is a leading global city, with strengths in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism and transport all contributing to its prominence. It is the world's leading financial centre alongside New York City and has the fifth-largest city GDP in the world (and the largest in Europe). London has been described as a world cultural capital. It was the world's most visited city during 2011 and London Heathrow is the world's busiest airport by number of international passengers. London's 43 universities form the largest concentration of higher education in Europe. In 2012 London will become the first city to host the modern Summer Olympic Games three times.

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Lowestoft
Coordinates: 52°29′N 1°45′E / 52.48°N 1.75°E / 52.48; 1.75
Lowestoft ( /ˈloʊ.əstɒft/, /ˈloʊstɒft/ or /ˈloʊstəf/) is a town in the English county of Suffolk. The town is on the North Sea coast and is the most easterly point of the United Kingdom. It is 110 miles (177 km) north-east of London, 38 miles (61 km) north-east of Ipswich and 22 miles (35 km) south-east of Norwich. It is situated on the edge of the Broads system and is the major settlement within the district of Waveney with a population of 64,358 at the 2001 census.
Some of the earliest evidence of settlement in Britain have been found in Lowestoft and the town has a long history. It is a port town which developed due to the fishing industry and a traditional seaside resort. It has wide, sandy beaches, two piers and a number of other tourist attractions. Whilst its fisheries have declined, the development of oil and gas exploitation in the southern North Sea in the 1960s led to the development of the town, along with nearby Great Yarmouth, as a base for the industry. This role has since declined and the town has begun to develop as a centre of the renewable energy industry within the East of England.

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Marlesford
Marlesford is a village and a civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal District, in the English county of Suffolk.

It is about 2 miles away from the small town of Wickham Market. Marlesford has a place of worship and a pub. The area of the village that is on the A12 road (where the pub is) is due to be by-passed, the scheme will not be implemented until after 2016. It once had a railway station called Marlesford railway station but it was closed in 1952.
The station controlled the trains going to Framlingham and the trains were all steam locomotives with 3 level crossings in the village. one at the station, one at the house called the Hedges which Provides access on to Lime Tree Farm and the third one was at the Gatehouse which has now been converted in to a private dwelling. This is also where Marlesford ford is now situated.
Coordinates: 52°10′N 1°24′E / 52.167°N 1.4°E / 52.167; 1.4

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Martlesham
Coordinates: 52°04′24″N 1°16′55″E / 52.07327°N 1.28181°E / 52.07327; 1.28181
Martlesham is a village in Suffolk, England about two miles (3 km) South-West of Woodbridge and 6 miles (9.7 km) East of Ipswich. It is often referred to as "old Martlesham" by locals in order to distinguish this old village from the much more recent Martlesham Heath development (1 km) to the south although both form a single administrative parish. Also at Martlesham Heath is BT's Research and Development Centre, now called Adastral Park.
Martlesham was recorded in Domesday as "Merlesham". The history and meaning of the name are studied in a paper by Briggs. It probably means `meadow near the mooring-place'.
It is believed that there was a Roman settlement at Martlesham and in the parish there have been some 26 finds dating from the Roman occupation. These include pottery, brooches, coins and tesserae. Of particular note was the 19th century find of a small bronze statue of a horse on a plinth, bearing a Latin inscription indicating that this was an offering dedicated by a woman named Simplicia to the god Mars.

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Mercia
Mercia ( /ˈmɜrsiə/, /ˈmɜrʃə/) was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy. It was centred on the valley of the River Trent and its tributaries in the region now known as the English Midlands. The name is a Latinisation of the Old English Mierce or Myrce, meaning "border people".
Mercia's neighbours included Northumbria, Powys and the kingdoms of southern Wales, Wessex, Sussex, Essex and East Anglia.
The name Mercia is still in use today by a wide range of organisations, including military units, public, commercial and voluntary bodies; and occurs as a female given name.
Mercia's exact evolution from the Anglo-Saxon invasions is more obscure than that of Northumbria, Kent, or even Wessex. Also, Mercia developed an effective political structure and adopted Christianity later than the other kingdoms. Archaeological surveys show that Angles settled the lands north of the River Thames by the 6th century. The name Mercia is Old English for "boundary folk" (see Welsh Marches), and the traditional interpretation is that the kingdom originated along the frontier between the native Welsh and the Anglo-Saxon invaders. However, P. Hunter Blair argued an alternative interpretation: that they emerged along the frontier of Northumbria and the inhabitants of the Trent river valley.

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Monewden
Monewden is a small village and a civil parish in the hundred of Loss, in the Suffolk Coastal District, in the English county of Suffolk. Monewden has a church called St. Mary's Church and a meadow called High House Meadows. The nearest town is Wickham Market.
Coordinates: 52°10′44″N 1°16′26″E / 52.179°N 1.274°E / 52.179; 1.274

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Nacton
Coordinates: 52°01′01″N 1°13′59″E / 52.017°N 1.233°E / 52.017; 1.233
Nacton is a civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal region of Suffolk, England, taking its name from the village within it. The parish is bounded by the neighbouring parishes of Levington to the east and Bucklesham in the north. It is located between the towns of Ipswich and Felixstowe.
Nacton abuts the River Orwell opposite the village of Pin Mill. Riverside features covered by this parish are (from east to west) Buttermans Bay, Potter's Point, Downham Reach, Mulberry Middle and Pond Oose.
Nacton parish is the mother for the villages of Levington and Bucklesham and was sufficiently large to have a workhouse. This was used by Amberfield School as its main building until it closed in 2011. The more adventurous explorer can find the old burial ground opposite the entrance to lane leading down to the school. The site of Alnesbourne Priory is close to Nacton.
The village public house is the Shepherd and Dog, outside the village proper alongside the A1156 (formerly A45) road at the far northern edge of the parish.

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Newbourne
Coordinates: 52°02′21″N 1°18′43″E / 52.039247°N 1.312068°E / 52.039247; 1.312068
Newbourne is a village and civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal region of Suffolk, England. It lies on the peninsula between the River Orwell and the River Deben, to the east of Ipswich and south of Woodbridge.
The name Newbourne is commonly accepted to derive from the Old English words for 'new stream.' However, it has also been put forward that its origins may be from the Old Norse words for 'nine springs,' which is supported by the large number of nearby springs and other villages in the local area with names of Old Norse origin.
Facilities available in Newbourne include:
The length of human habitation at Newbourne is unknown but record of the settlement is found in the Domesday Book of 1086 under the name 'Neubrunna'.
In the 1881 census the total population of Newbourne is recorded as 141. This decreased in each census thereafter, with a low of 81 in 1931, until in 1951 the census showed a significant increase to a total population of 291. This rise in population was primarily due to the influx of people brought into the village by the Land Settlement Association.

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Norfolk
Norfolk ( /ˈnɔrfək/) is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The city of Norwich is the county town at Norfolk which is fifth largest ceremonial county in England, with an area of 5,371 km² (2,074 sq mi).
Of the 34 non-metropolitan English counties, Norfolk is the seventh most populous, with a population of 850,800 (mid 2008). However, as a largely rural county it has a low population density, 155 people per square kilometre (or 401 per square mile). Norfolk has about one-thirtieth the population density of central London, the tenth lowest density county in the country, with 38% of the county’s population living in the four major built up areas of Norwich (195,000), Great Yarmouth (67,000), King's Lynn (41,000) and Thetford (22,000).The Broads, a well known network of rivers and lakes, is located towards the county's east coast, bordering Suffolk. The area has the status of a National Park and is protected by the Broads Authority. Historical sites, such as those in the centre of Norwich, also contribute to tourism.

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Peasenhall
Peasenhall is a village and a civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal District, in the English county of Suffolk. It was the location of the Peasenhall Murder.

Peasenhall is a small village situated in East Suffolk, England. It is neighboured by nearby Sibton and Yoxford, and lies on the A1120 tourist route. Peasenhall has two butchers shops (JR Creasey/ Emmetts), a post office/ general store (Mace) and an antiques shop.

Peasenhall Murder
Philip's Street Atlas Suffolk (page 56)
Coordinates: 52°16′N 1°27′E / 52.267°N 1.45°E / 52.267; 1.45

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Pettistree
Pettistree is a village and a civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal District, in the English county of Suffolk. Pettistree House is a fine Georgian country manor house set in 13 acres of parkland. The civil parish of Pettistree comprises the manor of Pettistree, the manor of Byng, and the manor of Loudham. Byng Hall is a castellated 16th century manor house. Loudham Hall is a fine Georgian country manor house set in 69 acres. The parish of Pettistree has Saints Peter and Paul church, which was originally built in the thirteenth century. It is just south of the small town of Wickham Market. For transport there is the A12 road nearby.

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Coordinates: 52°08′N 1°22′E / 52.133°N 1.367°E / 52.133; 1.367

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Purdis Farm
Purdis Farm is a small area of Ipswich and a civil parish, in the Suffolk Coastal District, in the English county of Suffolk.
Coordinates: 52°02′N 1°13′E / 52.03°N 1.22°E / 52.03; 1.22

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Ramsholt
Coordinates: 52°01′44″N 1°22′03″E / 52.02884°N 1.36737°E / 52.02884; 1.36737
Ramsholt is a small village in Suffolk, England. It is situated on the northern shore of the River Deben.
Its church, All Saints, is one of 38 existing round-tower churches in Suffolk.
It's economy revolves around the pub next to the river dock.

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Rendham
Rendham is a village and a civil parish on the B1119 road, in the Suffolk Coastal District, in the English county of Suffolk. It is near the small town of Saxmundham and the village of Sweffling. Rendham has a pub and a place of worship.
http://www.ukvillages.co.uk/Place/23104/Rendham-Suffolk http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/rendham.htm
Coordinates: 52°14′N 1°26′E / 52.233°N 1.433°E / 52.233; 1.433

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Rendlesham
Coordinates: 52°07′01″N 1°25′01″E / 52.117°N 1.417°E / 52.117; 1.417
Rendlesham, near Woodbridge, Suffolk was a royal centre of authority for the king of the East Anglians, of the Wuffinga line; the proximity of the Sutton Hoo ship burial may indicate a connection between Sutton Hoo and the East Anglian royal house. Swithhelm, son of Seaxbald, who reigned from 660 to around 664, was baptised at Rendlesham by Saint Cedd with King Aethelwald of East Anglia acting as his godfather. He died around the time of the great plague of 664 and may have been buried at the palace of Rendlesham.
Its name is recorded in Old English about 730 AD as Rendlæsham, which may mean "Homestead belonging to [a man named] Rendel", or it may come from a theorized Old English word *rendel = "little shore".
It was also the location of Rendlesham Hall, a large manor house demolished in 1949.
More recently Rendlesham was the site of the Rendlesham Forest Incident, a series of reported sightings of unexplained pulsing lights off the coast of Orford Ness in December 1980.

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Reydon
Coordinates: 52°20′15″N 1°40′10″E / 52.3376°N 1.6695°E / 52.3376; 1.6695
Reydon is a village and civil parish, 1.0 mile (1.6 km) north-west from Southwold and 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south east of Wangford in Waveney District and the ceremonial county of Suffolk in England. It has a population of 2,567.
The name probably means Rye Hill, Rey meaning rye and -don being an old English word for hill or rise). The village is close to the cliffs at Easton Bavents, and like the lost village of Easton, it was established before Southwold was. The parish church is St Margaret of Antioch.
There are three main roads through Reydon, around which the village is built. These are:
The village of Reydon lies to the north of the town of Southwold. The three roads from Wangford, Wrentham and Halesworth converge at Reydon corner about 100 metres from where Mights Bridge crosses over Buss Creek, which provides the only road bridge entry to Southwold.
There are only two shops in Reydon. In 2007 the Royal Mail decided to remove the post office facilities as part of a plan to reduce financial losses. This move was strongly opposed by many people living in Reydon, but the sub-post office closed on 11 February 2008, although the associated shop continues.

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Rushmere St Andrew
Coordinates: 52°03′58″N 1°12′47″E / 52.066°N 1.213°E / 52.066; 1.213
Rushmere St. Andrew is a village and civil parish adjacent to part of the eastern edge of the borough of Ipswich in the Suffolk Coastal district of Suffolk, England. The parish includes the Ipswich suburbs of Rushmere Heath and parts of the Broke Hall as well as the village of Rushmere St. Andrew, from which it draws its name.
Rushmere Common, also known locally as Rushmere heath is a large area of common land which dominates much of the south-east of the parish. Home to the Rushmere Golf Club and bordered by Playford Road, Heath Road and the Broke Hall Estate the common is an area enjoyed by walkers and cyclists alike who take advantage of its wide open spaces and footpaths including the Sandhills Walk which starts on the common and ends in Southwold 60 miles away on the north Suffolk coast.
The village is home to a number of sports clubs and associations and was for many years a base for a number of the sports and social clubs of local businesses such as Willis(now Rushmere Sports Club) and Crane Fluid Systems Sports and Social Club which is in turn now part of the Ipswich Town F.C. training and academy complex. Ipswich Rugby Club and Ipswich YM Rugby Club are also in the parish along with Ipswich Wanderers Football Club.

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Saxmundham
Coordinates: 52°12′54″N 1°29′13″E / 52.215°N 1.487°E / 52.215; 1.487
Saxmundham is a small market town in Suffolk, England. It is set in the valley of the River Fromus, a tributary of the River Alde, approximately 18 miles (29 km) northeast of Ipswich and 5 miles (8.0 km) west of the coast at Sizewell. The town is bypassed by the A12 and is served by Saxmundham railway station on the East Suffolk Line.
The town's name allegedly derives from the Saxon "Seizmond's Home". The earliest recorded mention of Saxmundham is in the Domesday Book of 1086 which mentions three churches. It has had a market charter since at least 1272 AD^{[citation needed]} and carries on the tradition to this day.
Brother Eadulf, has become Saxmundham's most famous international fictional character. He appears in the best-selling Sister Fidelma mysteries written by Peter Tremayne (nom de plume of the Celtic scholar and author Peter Beresford Ellis). Brother Eadulf is companion and assistant to Sister Fidelma and often plays a crucial part in resolving the mystery. He is introduced as originally the hereditary gerefa (magistrate) of "Seaxmund's Ham in the land of the South Folk." He attends the famous Synod of Whitby in 664 AD and joins Sister Fidelma in solving a murder of one of the delegates (Absolution by Murder, 1994). He has since appeared in most of the novels and some of the short stories although the Saxmundham area has been used as a setting in only one of the novels - The Haunted Abbot (2002). Peter Tremayne chose Saxmundham as Eadulf's place of origin because of local connections, the nearness of the town to an ancient royal burial site of the East Angles as well as the East Anglian historic connections with Irish Christian missionaries. He has appeared in all but two of the Sister Fidelma series of mystery novels, set in 7th century Ireland.

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Saxtead
Saxtead is a small village in the Suffolk Coastal District, in the county of Suffolk. Saxtead gives its name to the settlements of Saxtead Green and Saxtead Little Green and the windmill Saxtead Green Windmill. Saxtead is located on the A1120 road in between the town of Stowmarket and the village of Yoxford. It has an All Saints Church
Coordinates: 52°14′30″N 1°18′33″E / 52.24163°N 1.30914°E / 52.24163; 1.30914

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Shottisham
Shottisham is a village and civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal District, in the county of Suffolk. Shottisham has a church, a pub and a camp site. The church and the camp site are both named Saint Margaret's and the pub is named The Sorrel Horse.
http://www.ukvillages.co.uk/Place/24823/Shottisham-Suffolk
Coordinates: 52°03′N 1°23′E / 52.05°N 1.383°E / 52.05; 1.383

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Sibton
Sibton is a village and civil parish on the A1120 road, in the Suffolk Coastal District, in the English county of Suffolk. It is near the towns of Saxmundham and Halesworth, the village of Peasenhall and the hamlet of Sibton Green. Sibton has a church called St Peter's Church and an abbey, Sibton Abbey.
Coordinates: 52°16′24″N 1°27′32″E / 52.2733°N 1.459°E / 52.2733; 1.459

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Sizewell
Coordinates: 52°12′50″N 1°37′05″E / 52.214°N 1.618°E / 52.214; 1.618
Sizewell is a small fishing village with a few holiday homes in the county of Suffolk, England. It is located on the East Anglian coast just north of the larger holiday villages of Thorpeness and Aldeburgh, and two miles from the town of Leiston. It is within the Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB.
The village was part of the Ogilvie estate, which extended as far south as Aldeburgh. Sizewell Hall, now used as a Christian conference centre, is still owned by the Ogilvie family.
The village itself is overshadowed by two separate nuclear power stations, the Magnox Sizewell A and Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) Sizewell B, which are readily visible from the nearby holiday beaches.
There is a monument on the beach showing a pair of crossed kayak oars, a broken paddle and a kayak. On the memorial is written "In memory of the thirty-two young Dutchmen who tried to escape to England by kayak during World War II to join the Allied Forces, eight of them reached the English coast, only three survived the war. The last living survivor dedicates this memorial to his brothers in arms who were less fortunate. He reached England - and freedom - on this beach on 21 September 1941". These men were known as Engelandvaarders.

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Sotherton
Coordinates: 52°21′32″N 1°35′02″E / 52.359°N 1.584°E / 52.359; 1.584
Sotherton is a dispersed village in Suffolk, England, located approximately 7 miles (11 km) south of Beccles and 3¾ miles (6 km) north east of Halesworth close to the A145. The mid-2005 population estimate for Sotherton parish was 70.Uggeshall is located just to the north-east and Blythburgh to the south-east.
The parish church is dedicated to St Andrew and is located on a small dead-end lane signposted off the A145. It is a Grade II* listed building.
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Southwold
Coordinates: 52°19′37″N 1°40′48″E / 52.327°N 1.680°E / 52.327; 1.680
Southwold is a small town on the North Sea coast, in the Waveney district of the English county of Suffolk. It is located on the North Sea coast at the mouth of the River Blyth within the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The town is around 11 miles (18 km) south of Lowestoft and 29 miles (47 km) north-east of Ipswich. It is within the parliamentary constituency of Suffolk Coastal.
Southwold was mentioned in the Domesday Book as an important fishing port, and it received its town charter from Henry VII in 1489. Over the following centuries a shingle bar built up across the harbour mouth, preventing the town from becoming a major port.^{[citation needed]}
Southwold was the home of a number of Puritan emigrants to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the early seventeenth century. Richard Ibrook, born in Southwold and a former bailiff of the town, emigrated to Hingham, Massachusetts, along with Rev. Peter Hobart, son of Edmund Hobart of Hingham, Norfolk. Rev. Hobart was formerly an assistant vicar of Southwold's St. Edmunds Church after his graduation from Magdalene College, Cambridge. (Hobart married as his second wife in America Rebecca Ibrook, daughter of his fellow Puritan Richard Ibrook.) The immigrants to Hingham were led by Robert Peck, vicar of St. Andrews' Church in Hingham and a native of Beccles.

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Southwold Railway
The Southwold Railway was a narrow gauge railway line between Halesworth and Southwold in the English county of Suffolk. 8+³⁄₄ miles (14.1 km) long, it was built to 3 ft (914 mm) gauge. It opened in 1879 and closed in 1929.
Intermediate stations were at Wenhaston, Blythburgh and Walberswick.
The route closely followed the River Blyth, with Halesworth and Southwold both on the north side, but the longest section including the intermediate stations on the south side. Although the line closed in 1929, its track was still marked and identified on a 1933 Ordnance Survey map, a navigable version of which is accessible in the external links section. The line was lifted & the equipment was scrapped in 1941 to help with war efforts. Some track can still be found on the harbour branch and a surviving van is at the East Anglian transport museum (Carlton Colville). There is also a surviving (but derelict) coal shed at Blythburgh.
Parts of the route from Southwold to Blythburgh are walkable in particularly through woodland known as the Heronry on the south shore of the Blyth estuary. The original footbridge at Southwold was blown up during the war but its pillars now support a footbridge.

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Sternfield
Coordinates: 52°12′04″N 1°29′49″E / 52.201°N 1.497°E / 52.201; 1.497
Sternfield is a village in Suffolk, England. It is located 1 mile (2 km) south of Saxmundham, its post town. The village is very small and irregularly built, and is wholly agricultural. The village contains a church dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene.
During the 1960s and 1970s Lt. Col. Sir Eric and Lady Prue Penn lived at Sternfield House, a large house next to the church with extensive gardens and as Sir Eric was the comptroler of the Lord Chamberlain's office and was a very trusted presence in Buckingham Palace, senior members of the royal family came and stayed at Sternfield House on a number of occasions. Princess Margaret came most often, but the Queen also came at least once and attended St Mary Magdalene's, as did the Queen Mother.

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Stratford St Andrew
Coordinates: 52°11′24″N 1°26′53″E / 52.19°N 1.448°E / 52.19; 1.448
Stratford St Andrew is a village and a civil parish on the A12 road, in the Suffolk Coastal District, in the English county of Suffolk.
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Stratton Hall
Coordinates: 52°00′11″N 1°16′05″E / 52.003°N 1.268°E / 52.003; 1.268
Stratton Hall is a civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal district of Suffolk in eastern England. In 2005 its population was 30. It shares a parish council with nearby Levington.

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Sudbourne
Coordinates: 52°07′01″N 1°33′00″E / 52.117°N 1.55°E / 52.117; 1.55
Sudbourne is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England, located approximately 2 miles (3 km) north of Orford.
Sudbourne is recognisable for Captain's Wood, a nature reserve owned by Suffolk Wildlife Trust and Crag Farm Pit which is listed as a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Suffolk. Sudbourne is also the birthplace of Sir Thomas Rush.

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Suffolk
Suffolk ( /ˈsʌfək/) is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowestoft, Bury St Edmunds and Felixstowe, one of the largest container ports in Europe. It is one of the few counties in the United Kingdom that does not contain a city.
The county is low-lying with very few hills, and is largely arable land with the wetlands of The Broads in the North. The Suffolk Coast and Heaths are an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
By the 5th century the Angles, after whom East Anglia and England itself are named, had established control of the region and later became the "north folk" and the "south folk", hence, "Norfolk" and "Suffolk". Suffolk, and several adjacent areas, became the kingdom of East Anglia, which was settled by the Angles in the 5th century AD, later merging with Mercia and then Wessex.

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Suffolk Coastal
Suffolk Coastal is a local government district in Suffolk, England. Its council is based in Woodbridge. Other towns include Felixstowe.
The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of the municipal borough of Aldeburgh, along with Felixstowe, Leiston-cum-Sizewell, Saxmundham and Woodbridge urban districts, and Blyth Rural District and Deben Rural District.
There are 117 civil parishes and towns in Suffolk Coastal.
Suffolk Coastal (Parliamentary Constituency)
Coordinates: 52°05′46″N 1°19′22″E / 52.0961°N 1.3227°E / 52.0961; 1.3227

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Sweffling
Coordinates: 52°13′23″N 1°26′06″E / 52.223°N 1.435°E / 52.223; 1.435
Sweffling is a village and a civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal district, in the county of Suffolk, England. Nearby settlements include the town of Saxmundham and the village of Rendham.

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Swilland
Swilland is a village and a civil parish in the ancient hundred of Bosmere-and-Claydon, in the Suffolk Coastal District, in the English county of Suffolk. It is north of the large town of Ipswich. Swilland has a church called St Mary. It has a pub.
Coordinates: 52°07′52″N 1°11′47″E / 52.1311°N 1.1965°E / 52.1311; 1.1965

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Theberton
Coordinates: 52°13′59″N 1°34′01″E / 52.233°N 1.567°E / 52.233; 1.567
Theberton is a village in Suffolk, England. It is located 4 miles (6 km) northeast of Saxmundham, its post town. Located within the village is a National school for both sexes and Theberton Hall. The village primary school was closed around 1970 and is now used as the village hall.
It was here at 02:00 on the morning of 17 June 1917 that the German Zeppelin airship L48 was shot down by Robert Saundby and others while it was on a bombing run. Sixteen members of the crew died in the crash, three survived but one later died from his injuries. Their bodies have since been moved to a central burial ground in Staffordshire, although a memorial can still be seen in the cemetery across the road from the church. Part of the framework of the Zeppelin itself is mounted in the porch of the church.
Theberton is twinned with Thebarton, Australia.
The Victorian photographer Robert Howlett was born in Theberton in 1831, the second of four sons of Reverend Robert Howlett and Harriet Harsant. He is renowned for his iconic photograph of Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

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Thorington
Thorington is a village and a civil parish in the hundred of Blything, in the Suffolk Coastal District, in the English county of Suffolk. For transport there is the A12 road nearby. Nearby settlements include the town of Halesworth and the villages of Wenhaston and Blackheath. Thorington has places of worship.
Coordinates: 52°18′45″N 1°32′56″E / 52.3125°N 1.5490°E / 52.3125; 1.5490

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Thorpeness
Coordinates: 52°10′53″N 1°36′57″E / 52.18146°N 1.61584°E / 52.18146; 1.61584
Thorpeness is a village in the county of Suffolk, England. It is part of the parish of Aldringham cum Thorpe and is within the Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB.
The village was originally a small fishing hamlet in the late 19th century, with folklore stories of it being a route for smugglers into East Anglia. However in 1910, Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie, a Scottish barrister who had made his money designing railways around the world, bought the entire area from north of Aldeburgh to past Sizewell, up the coast and inland to Aldringham and Leiston.
Most of this land was used for farming but Ogilvie developed Thorpeness into a private fantasy holiday village, to which he invited his friends' and colleagues' families during the summer months. A country club with tennis courts and a swimming pool, a golf course and clubhouse and many holiday homes were built in Jacobean and Tudor Revival styles. A notable feature of the village is a set of almshouses built in the 1920s to the design of W.G. Wilson. To hide the eyesore of having a water tower in the village, the tank was clad in wood to make it look like a small house on top of a 5-storey tower, with a separate water-pumping windmill next to it. It is known as the "House in the Clouds", and after mains water was installed in the village the old tank was transformed into a huge games room with views over the land from Aldeburgh to Sizewell.

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Trimley St Martin
Coordinates: 51°59′28″N 1°18′47″E / 51.991°N 1.313°E / 51.991; 1.313
Trimley St. Martin is parish and village between Felixstowe and Ipswich in Suffolk, England.
The village, and its neighbour Trimley St. Mary, are famous for their adjacent churches which were built as the result of a historical family feud. St. Martin's church is the northerly church (at grid reference TM 276 370).
There has been some controversy over plans to build a further 1,500 dwellings on the land owned by Trinity College, Cambridge. Some fear that the village identity would be lost, to be replaced by suburban sprawl, whilst others argue that there is a real need for additional housing in the area.

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Trimley St Mary
Coordinates: 51°58′41″N 1°19′23″E / 51.978°N 1.323°E / 51.978; 1.323
Trimley St. Mary is a parish and village between Felixstowe and Ipswich in Suffolk, England. Its eastern border is either the Dock Spur bridge or Spriteshall Lane. History would dictate that Spriteshall lane is the more likely border.
The village, and its neighbour Trimley St. Martin, are famous for their adjacent churches which were built as the result of a historical family feud^{[citation needed]} St. Mary's church is the southerly church (at grid reference TM 276 369).
The village also contains a number of shops including an Indian Take-Away, a hairdresser, a newsagent and a pub.
Trimley railway station serves the village on the Felixstowe Branch Line.
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Tuddenham St Martin
Coordinates: 52°05′28″N 1°11′53″E / 52.091°N 1.198°E / 52.091; 1.198
Tuddenham or Tuddenham St. Martin is a small village within the Suffolk countryside, lying just outside Ipswich, on the River Fynn. The village contains "The Fountain" restaurant as well as the church of St Martin in which lies the final resting place of artist Carl Giles and his wife Joan.
The village has its own magazine called The Tuddenham Tattler.
The social calendar includes "The Tuddenham TADPOLE's (Tuddenham Amateur Dramatic People Of Little Experience) Pantomime", the Village Féte, the Safari Supper and several Parish Picnics.
It was a part of the old Hundreds of Suffolk of Carlford (hundred).

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Ubbeston
Coordinates: 52°18′07″N 1°24′18″E / 52.302°N 1.405°E / 52.302; 1.405
Ubbeston is a village and civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal district, in the county of Suffolk, England. Nearby settlements include the town of Halesworth, the village of Heveningham and the hamlet of Ubbeston Green.
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Uggeshall
Coordinates: 52°21′47″N 1°35′35″E / 52.363°N 1.593°E / 52.363; 1.593
Uggeshall is a village in Suffolk, England, located approximately 6 miles (10km) south of Beccles and 4 miles (6½km) north east of Halesworth close to the A145. The mid-2005 population estimate for Uggeshall parish was 170.Sotherton is located just to the south-west, Wangford to the south-east and Brampton and Stoven to the north.
The parish church is dedicated to St Mary.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe. The country includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea.
The United Kingdom is a unitary state governed under a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary system, with its seat of government in the capital city of London. It is a country in its own right and consists of four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. There are three devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff, the capitals of Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Associated with the UK, but not constitutionally part of it, are three Crown Dependencies. The United Kingdom has fourteen overseas territories. These are remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in 1922, encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land surface and was the largest empire in history. British influence can still be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former territories.

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Walberswick

Coordinates: 52°18′47″N 1°39′07″E / 52.313°N 1.652°E / 52.313; 1.652
Walberswick is a village on the Suffolk coast in England, across the River Blyth from Southwold. Coastal erosion and the shifting of the mouth of the River Blyth meant that the neighbouring town of Dunwich was lost as a port in the last years of the 13th century. Following a brief period of rivalry and dispute with Dunwich, Walberswick became a major trading port from the 13th century until World War I. Almost half of the properties in the village are holiday homes. There is a ferry across the river Blyth to Southwold.
The name Walberswick is believed to derive from the Saxon Waldbert – probably a landowner – and “wyc” meaning shelter or harbour. At the top of the village is the 15th century St. Andrew's Church. The size of the St. Andrew's ruins demonstrate how large the parish once was.
With over 1,000 acres (4 km²) of heath and marshland protected within the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Walberswick has good varied local habitats for birds. The village and surrounding beach and marshland have long attracted residents drawn from the arts, film and media. In the 1890s and 1900s the village became associated with Philip Wilson Steer and his circle of English Impressionists. It was home to the noted artist and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh from 1914. It was also the birthplace of Oscar nominated documentary film maker Humphrey Jennings famous for his World War II documentaries.

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Waldringfield
Coordinates: 52°03′08″N 1°19′21″E / 52.0523°N 1.3224°E / 52.0523; 1.3224
Waldringfield is a village and civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal district, in the county of Suffolk, England. It is situated on the bank of the River Deben within the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, four miles south of the town of Woodbridge and eight miles east of the county town of Ipswich. There is the hamlet of Waldringfield Heath nearby. It also has a Yacht Club called Waldringfield Yacht Club.
The name Waldringfield is derived from the Old English words meaning ‘open land of the family or followers of a man called Waldhere’. The length of human habitation at Waldringfield is unknown but iron age finds such a pottery shards from the 1st century BC have been found locally. Record of the settlement is found in the Domesday Book of 1086 under the name 'Waldingafelda' along with the name 'Minima Waldringafelda' (Lesser Waldringfield).

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Wangford
Coordinates: 52°21′18″N 1°37′19″E / 52.355°N 1.622°E / 52.355; 1.622
Wangford is a village in Suffolk, England, just off the A12 trunk road on the edge of the Henham Park estate just outside Southwold. (NB there are two villages named Wangford in Suffolk: the other is in West Suffolk, in the Lark Valley. This article refers to the eastern village).
Wangford is connected to the rest of Suffolk by two main roads. At one side of the village the road leads straight on to the A12 (dual carriage way), and the other side of the village leads to Reydon, and Southwold (B1126).
Wangford has approximately 640 residents and the main village covers about 50 acres (200,000 m²). The parish also includes Henham Park and the hamlet of Barnaby Green.
At the centre of the village there is a community centre, containing a reasonable sized hall, a bar, a kitchen and a small games room. There is also a shop, post-office, two pubs - the Angel Inn and the Plough, a farm shop, a playing field and allotments, tennis courts and the local vet.

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Wantisden
Coordinates: 52°06′36″N 1°27′29″E / 52.110°N 1.458°E / 52.110; 1.458
Wantisden is a small village and civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal district of Suffolk in eastern England. Largely consisting of a single farm and ancient woodland (Staverton Forest), most of its 30 residents live on the farm estate. It shares a parish council with nearby Butley and Capel St. Andrew. It has a church called Church of St John the Baptist.

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Westerfield
Coordinates: 52°04′59″N 1°10′19″E / 52.083°N 1.172°E / 52.083; 1.172
Westerfield is a village in Suffolk, England.
It is located approximately two miles north of the centre of Ipswich. The village is served by Westerfield railway station on the Ipswich-Lowestoft East Suffolk Line.
Westerfield is home to two public houses. The Swan in Northern Westerfield, and The Railway in the south of the village. Both serve food and are significant in bringing the community together. In central Westerfield is the village green, which is part of the church grounds. The village green hosts for the locals and provides other facilities such as a railway and a choice of pubs.
The population of Westerfield currently stands at around 200.

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Westleton
Coordinates: 52°16′01″N 1°34′59″E / 52.267°N 1.583°E / 52.267; 1.583
Westleton is a village in the English county of Suffolk. It is located 4 miles (6 km) north of Leiston and 5 miles (8 km) miles north-east of Saxmundham near the North Sea coast. The village is on the edge of the Suffolk Sandlings, an area of lowland heathland. The village lies along the B1125 road, 2 miles (3 km) to the east of the A12 and Darsham railway station.
Westleton Heath National Nature Reserve is 0.5 miles (1 km) north east of the village. The heath is crossed by a minor road from Westleton to the coastal village of Dunwich, 2 miles (3 km) to the east. The famous Minsmere RSPB reserve lies immediately to the east of the village.
The fourteenth-century village church of St. Peter in Westleton was built by monks from Sibton Abbey near Saxmundham. The church has twice seen the collapse of its tower: in 1776 under the strain of hurricane winds; and during World War II, when the smaller wooden replacement fell under the weight of a bomb.

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Wickham Market
Coordinates: 52°09′00″N 1°22′01″E / 52.15°N 1.367°E / 52.15; 1.367
Wickham Market is a large village situated in the River Deben valley of Suffolk, England, within the Suffolk Coastal heritage area.
It is on the A12 trunk road thirteen miles north-east of the county town of Ipswich, five miles north-east of Woodbridge. Its railway station is located approximately two miles east at Campsea Ashe. It is a large village with 2,204 residents living in 953 dwellings (2001 census). 27.59% of the population are between the ages of 40 and 59 and 23.19% of residents reside in council or housing association homes.
Wickham Market's All Saints Church is over 700 years old and its octagonal tower and lead spire (137.5 feet tall) dominate the skyline and make it visible for miles over the surrounding countryside. The exterior of the church is stone and flintwork. Inside there are four stained glass windows, a 600 year old font, a carved pulpit and an altar table with a painted reredos. There are six bells in the tower and a Sanctus Bell in the cote. Nearby attractions include: Valley Farm Equestrian Visitor Centre, Easton Farm Park, the Snape Maltings, Framlingham Castle and Sutton Hoo.

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Willingham St Mary
Coordinates: 52°24′04″N 1°35′28″E / 52.401°N 1.591°E / 52.401; 1.591
Willingham St Mary is a village and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk located about 3.5 miles (6 km) south of Beccles along the A145 in the District of Waveney. The village is joined with Shadingfield and 1.5 miles (2 km) west of Sotterley. At the 2001 census the parish had a population of 155. A joint parish council covers the parishes of Ellough, Shadingfield, Sotterley and Willingham St Mary.
The village has few services. Children attend primary school in Brampton, middle school in Worlingham and high school in Beccles. The Shadingfield Fox public house is within the parish boundary, although more commonly associated with Shadingfield. The parish church, which was dedicated to St Mary, is no longer standing.
At the Domesday survey of 1086, the village of Willingaham formed part of the estates of Hugh de Montfort. It consisted of around 31 families, including at least 15 freemen, and paid 3 geld in taxation.

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Witnesham
Coordinates: 52°06′54″N 1°11′17″E / 52.115°N 1.188°E / 52.115; 1.188
Witnesham is a village situated roughly 4 miles (6 km) to the north of Ipswich, Suffolk. The main road from Ipswich that links the village to the town is the B1077, Westerfield Road.
It is in the Domesday Book as 'Wytenesham’ (Witta’s/Witten’s meadow or enclosure) and had 10 villagers.
It was a part of the old Hundreds of Suffolk of Carlford (hundred).
The village has two churches, the Baptist at the top of the village, north on Upper Road.
The larger church, St Mary's OS grid TM1850, located west out of Witnesham along the Church Lane (no through lane), near the source of the River Fynn.
Witnesham Hall, (OS grid TM1750) was built in the 16th century, is further west on the same lane.
The village amenities include a 1766 inn, The Barley Mow on Mow Hill (OS grid TM 185 503) south of Witnesham but before it is America Hill.
Its Post Office was at the bottom of the village, nearest to Ipswich, but was closed down a short while ago. Postal services are continued at the Baptist Church on a two-day basis.

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Yoxford
Coordinates: 52°15′50″N 1°30′32″E / 52.264°N 1.509°E / 52.264; 1.509
Yoxford is a village in the east of Suffolk, England close to the Heritage Coast, Minsmere Reserve (RSPB), Aldeburgh and Southwold.
Some 94 miles from London and 25 miles north of Ipswich, Yoxford is surrounded by the parkland of three country houses in an area known as the “Garden of Suffolk”. The village derives its name from a ford of the River Yox where oxen could pass. It runs near the village. The junction of the A12 trunk road and the A1120 is in the village.
The "Griffin Inn", a medieval Suffolk inn is located here. The Satis House Hotel, an 18th century house, was referred to by Charles Dickens in Great Expectations. According to Pip, Satis means "whoever lives here could wish for nothing more". The Church of St Peter is situated here. On the edge of the village is Cockfield Hall the old home of the Blois family.
The village is known for its antique shops and also has three pubs (The Griffin, The Blois Arms & The King's Head), a Post Office, a general store and other shops. However The Blois Arms is closed at the moment.

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Anna of East Anglia
Anna (or Onna; killed 653 or 654) was King of East Anglia from the early 640s until his death. Anna was a member of the Wuffingas family, the ruling dynasty of the East Angles. He was one of the three sons of Eni who ruled East Anglia, succeeding some time after Ecgric was killed in battle by Penda of Mercia. He was praised by Bede for his devotion to Christianity and was renowned for the saintliness of his family: his son Jurmin and all his daughters – Seaxburh, Æthelthryth, Æthelburh and possibly a fourth, Wihtburh – were canonised.
Little is known of Anna's life or his reign, as few records have survived from this period. In 631 he may have been at Exning, close to the Devil's Dyke. In 645 Cenwalh of Wessex was driven from his kingdom by Penda and whilst living as an exile at the East Anglian court and as a result of Anna's influence, he was converted to Christianity. Upon his return from exile, Cenwalh was able to re-establish Christianity in his own kingdom and the people of Wessex then remained firmly Christian. Around 651 the land around Ely was absorbed into East Anglia, following the marriage of Anna's daughter Æthelthryth. Following the attack in 651 by Penda on the monastery at Cnobheresburg, which Anna richly endowed, he was forced by Penda to flee into exile. He may have travelled to the western kingdom of the Magonsæte and returned in about 653, but East Anglia was attacked again by Penda soon afterwards and at the Battle of Bulcamp the East Anglian army, led by Anna, was defeated by the Mercians, and Anna and his son Jurmin were both killed. He was succeeded by his brother, Æthelhere. Botolph's monastery at Iken may have been built in commemoration of the king. After Anna's reign, East Anglia seems to have been eclipsed by its more powerful neighbour, Mercia.

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Benjamin Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten,OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist; and one of the central figures of 20th century British classical music. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to international fame. For the next fifteen years he devoted much of his compositional attention to writing operas, establishing him as one of the leading 20th century figures in this genre.
Britten's interests as a composer were wide-ranging; he produced important music in such varied genres as orchestral, choral, solo vocal (much of it written for his life partner, tenor Peter Pears), chamber and instrumental, as well as film music. He also took a great interest in writing music for children and amateur performers, and was an outstanding pianist and conductor.
Britten was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, on 22 November 1913, the youngest of four children. His father, Robert, was a dentist, and his mother Edith, a talented amateur musician who gave Britten his first lessons in piano and notation. He showed musical gifts very early in life, making his first attempts at composition aged five, and thereafter composing prolifically as a child. He started piano lessons with a teacher from his pre-prep school when aged 7, and viola lessons with Audrey Alston when 10 years old.

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Blois family
The Blois family are major landowners in Suffolk. Sir Gervase Ralph Edmund Blois, 10th Baronet born on 6 June 1901. He was the son of Sir Ralph Barrett MacNaghten Blois, 9th Bt. and Winifred Grace Hegan Kennard. He married, firstly, Audrey Winifred Johnson, daughter of Colonel Harry Johnson, on 20 September 1938. He and Audrey Winifred Johnson were divorced in 1948. He married, secondly, Margaret Lucia White, daughter of Major Hon. Charles James White and Evelyn Bulkeley-Johnson, on 24 April 1948. He died on 22 May 1968 at age 66.
Sir Gervase Ralph Edmund Blois was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, England and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Bengal between 1925 and 1928. He gained the rank of Captain in 1939 in the service of the Scots Guards. He fought in the Second World War and was decorated with the Military Cross (M.C.) in 1944, the Croix de Guerre^{[disambiguation needed ]} and the Legion of Honour. He succeeded to the title of 10th Baronet Blois, of Grundisburgh and Cockfield Hall, near Yoxford, Suffolk on 18 March 1950.

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Ernest Crofts
Ernest Crofts (1847 – 19 March 1911), British painter of historical and military scenes.
Born in Leeds on September 15, 1847, he was son of John Crofts, Esq. of Adal, near Leeds, a Justice of the Peace, and grandson of the Rev. W. Crofts, B.D., Vicar of North Grimston, near Malton, Yorkshire. One of his maternal uncles was the Rev. William Carr, B.D. of Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire. His mother, Ellen Wordsworth, was the second cousin of the poet Wordsworth. Ernest studied at Rugby School, for several years, and then headed to Berlin where he developed his interest in art and decided upon a career as a painter. His first acquaintance with war was made in 1864 when he accompanied a Prussian doctor in the Schleswig-Holstein War, and the operations around Düppel.
He returned to London and became a pupil under A.B. Clay, but was back in Germany a few years later, this time in Düsseldorf which was the center for historical painting in Europe, where he studied under the German military artist, Emil Hünten, himself an ex-pupil of Horace Vernet, and at the time military and historical painter to the Prussian emperor. Under Hünten, Crofts' talent as a military painter grew, and in 1874, he exhibited Retreat, representing an episode in the Franco-Prussian War during the Battle of Gravelotte, and in the same year, another scene from the same conflict, One touch of nature makes the whole world kin which won him the Crystal Palace prize medal. Both scenes were influenced by the artist's experience of witnessing some of the closing stages of the war, especially the battles of Weissenbourg, Worth, and the siege of Strasbourg. While contributing regularly to the annual Royal Academy exhibition, he continued to live in Düsseldorf where he met his future wife.

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Jack Pritchard
John Craven (Jack) Pritchard (Hampstead, London, 8 June 1899 – Blythburgh, Suffolk, 27 April 1992) was a British furniture designer, who was very influential between the First and Second World Wars. His work is exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Museum of London.
In 1924 he married Rosemary (Molly) Cooke born 1900 - died 1985; they had two sons Jonathan and Jeremy born in 1926 and 1928. Jack also had a daughter Jennifer with Beatrix Tudor Hart.
His daughter Jennifer and her husband Colin Jones designed Jack and Molly’s house “Isokon” in Dunwich Road, Blythburgh, although it was controversially called 8 Angel Lane, where they moved to in retirement after living for many years in his famous Lawn Road Flats.
The house was named after Isokon Jack’s business established in London, 1931 where he worked with some of the finest furniture designs. His most famous products being the Long Chair designed by Marcel Breuer, 1936 and the Penguin Donkey designed for Pritchard's friend Allen Lane by Egon Riss, 1939 both of which are still in production and made using shaped multi-ply (plywood) construction.

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John Seymour Lucas
John Seymour Lucas (21 December 1849 – 8 May 1923) was a Victorian English historical and portrait painter as well as an accomplished theatrical costume designer. He was born into an artistic London family, (he was the nephew of the painter John Lucas)and originally trained as a woodcarver, but turned his attention to portrait painting and entered first the St. Martin's Lane Art School and later the Royal Academy Schools. Here he met his French wife, fellow artist Marie Cornelissen, whom he married in 1877. Lucas’ artistic education included extensive travels around Europe, particularly Holland and Spain, where he studied the Flemish and Spanish Masters. He first started exhibiting in 1872, was elected an associate member of the Royal Academy in 1876 and a full Royal Academician in 1898.
John Seymour Lucas was first and foremost a historical genre painter with a particular talent for realism in the depiction of costumes and interiors. Inspired by van Dyck and particularly Diego Velázquez, he excelled in depicting scenes from the English 16th to 18th century Tudor and Stuart periods, including in particular the Spanish Armada, the English Civil War and the Jacobite rebellions.

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Kenneth Hubbard
Group Captain Kenneth Gilbert Hubbard OBE, DFC, AFC (26 February 1920 – 21 January 2004) was the pilot of an RAF Valiant bomber which dropped Britain's first live megaton thermo-nuclear weapon (the H-Bomb) in the southern Pacific Ocean in 1957.
Kenneth Gilbert Hubbard was born at Norwich in Norfolk and went to local schools before going to Norwich Technical College. He trained as a draughtsman before the gathering war clouds gave Ken Hubbard the opportunity to join the RAF and train as a pilot.

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Mercia
Mercia ( /ˈmɜrsiə/, /ˈmɜrʃə/) was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy. It was centred on the valley of the River Trent and its tributaries in the region now known as the English Midlands. The name is a Latinisation of the Old English Mierce or Myrce, meaning "border people".
Mercia's neighbours included Northumbria, Powys and the kingdoms of southern Wales, Wessex, Sussex, Essex and East Anglia.
The name Mercia is still in use today by a wide range of organisations, including military units, public, commercial and voluntary bodies; and occurs as a female given name.
Mercia's exact evolution from the Anglo-Saxon invasions is more obscure than that of Northumbria, Kent, or even Wessex. Also, Mercia developed an effective political structure and adopted Christianity later than the other kingdoms. Archaeological surveys show that Angles settled the lands north of the River Thames by the 6th century. The name Mercia is Old English for "boundary folk" (see Welsh Marches), and the traditional interpretation is that the kingdom originated along the frontier between the native Welsh and the Anglo-Saxon invaders. However, P. Hunter Blair argued an alternative interpretation: that they emerged along the frontier of Northumbria and the inhabitants of the Trent river valley.

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Penda of Mercia
Penda (died 15 November 655) was a 7th-century King of Mercia, the Anglo-Saxon kingdom in what is today the English Midlands. A pagan at a time when Christianity was taking hold in many of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, Penda took over the Severn Valley in 628 following the Battle of Cirencester before participating in the defeat of the powerful Northumbrian king Edwin at the Battle of Hatfield Chase in 633.
Nine years later, he defeated and killed Edwin's eventual successor, Oswald, at the Battle of Maserfield; from this point he was probably the most powerful of the Anglo-Saxon rulers of the time, laying the foundations for the Mercian supremacy over the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy. He repeatedly defeated the East Angles and drove Cenwalh the king of Wessex into exile for three years. He continued to wage war against the Bernicians of Northumbria. Thirteen years after Maserfield, he suffered a crushing defeat by Oswald's successor Oswiu and was killed at the Battle of the Winwaed in the course of a final campaign against the Bernicians.

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Peter Harold Wright
Peter Harold Wright VC (10 August 1916 – 5 April 1990) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Wright was 27 years old, and a company sergeant-major in the 3rd Battalion, Coldstream Guards, British Army during the Second World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
On 25 September 1943 near Salerno, Italy, a steep, wooded hill was being assaulted by the 3rd Bn. Coldstream Guards, and Company Sergeant-Major Wright's company, most of its officers killed, was held up near the crest. Sergeant-Major Wright took charge and single-handed he silenced with grenades and bayonet three Spandau posts and then led his men to consolidate the position. He then beat off a counter-attack, and disregarding the heavy fire, brought up extra ammunition.
Wright's Distinguished Conduct Medal was substituted for the VC on the instructions of King George VI.

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Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton Wykeham Fiennes ( /ˈreɪf ˈfaɪnz/; born 22 December 1962) is an English theatre and film actor. A noted Shakespeare interpreter, he first achieved success onstage in the Royal National Theatre. Since then, he has portrayed characters such as Nazi war criminal Amon Goeth in Schindler's List, Count Almásy in The English Patient, and Charles Van Doren in Quiz Show. He also starred in The Constant Gardener, Strange Days, Red Dragon, Onegin, and The End of the Affair, among others. He is also well known for playing Lord Voldemort in five Harry Potter movies (of eight).
In 2011, Fiennes made his directorial debut with his film adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy Coriolanus, in which he also played the titular character. Fiennes won a Tony Award for playing Hamlet on Broadway and has been nominated twice for the Academy Award.
Ralph Twisleton Wykeham Fiennes was born in Ipswich on 22 December 1962, the eldest child of Mark Fiennes (1933–2004), a farmer and photographer whose father was industrialist Sir Maurice Fiennes (1907–1994), and Jennifer Lash (1938–1993), a writer of English and Irish descent. His surname is of Norman origin.

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Thomas Wolsey
Thomas Wolsey (c. March 1473 – 29 November 1530; sometimes spelled Woolsey) was an English political figure and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. When Henry VIII became king of England in 1509, Wolsey became the King's almoner. Wolsey's affairs prospered and by 1514 he had become the controlling figure in virtually all matters of state and was extremely powerful within the Church. The highest political position he attained was Lord Chancellor, the King's chief adviser, enjoying great freedom and often depicted as an alter rex (other king). Within the Church he became Archbishop of York, the second most important seat in England, and then was made a cardinal in 1515, giving him precedence over even the Archbishop of Canterbury. His main legacy is from his interest in architecture, in particular his old home of Hampton Court Palace, which stands today.
Thomas Wolsey was born circa 1473, the son of Robert Wolsey of Ipswich and his wife Joan Daundy. His father was widely thought to have been a butcher and a cattle dealer, but sources indicate that Robert Wolsey died at the Battle of Bosworth Field and was a significant casualty.^{[citation needed]} Robert may have been a respected and wealthy cloth merchant, and the butcher story was perhaps invented to demean Wolsey and show how high he had climbed in terms of status.

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William Alwyn
William Alwyn, CBE, born William Alwyn Smith (7 November 1905 – 11 September 1985) was an English composer, conductor, and music teacher.
William Alwyn was born in Northampton, where he showed an early interest in music and began to learn to play the piccolo. At age 15 he entered the Royal Academy of Music in London where he studied flute and composition. He was a virtuoso flautist and for a time was a flautist with the London Symphony Orchestra. Alwyn served as professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music from 1926 to 1955.
William Alwyn had a remarkable range of talents. He was a distinguished polyglot, poet, and artist, as well as musician.
His compositional output was varied and large and included five symphonies, four operas, several concertos and string quartets.
Alwyn wrote over 70 film scores from 1941 to 1962. His classic film scores included Odd Man Out, Desert Victory, Fires Were Started, The History of Mr. Polly, The Fallen Idol, The Black Tent and The Crimson Pirate. Some of the scores have been lost, although many scores and sketches are now in the William Alwyn Archive at Cambridge University Library. In recent years CD recordings have been made. Some works, for which only fragmentary sketches remained, were reconstructed by Philip Lane or Christopher Palmer from the film soundtracks themselves.

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William Dowsing
William Dowsing (1596–1668) was an English iconoclast who operated at the time of the English Civil War. Dowsing was a puritan soldier who was born in Laxfield, Suffolk. He was Provost-Marshall of the armies of the Eastern Association (Cambridgeshire, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Lincolnshire), responsible for supplies and administration.
In 1643 he was appointed by their Captain-General, the Earl of Manchester as "Commissioner for the destruction of monuments of idolatry and superstition" to carry out a Parliamentary Ordinance of 28 August 1643 which stated that "all Monuments of Superstition and Idolatry should be removed and abolished", specifying: "fixed altars, altar rails, chancel steps, crucifixes, crosses, images of the Virgin Mary and pictures of saints or superstitious inscriptions." In May 1644 the scope of the Ordinance was widened to include representations of angels (a particular obsession of Dowsing's), rood lofts, holy water stoups, and images in stone, wood and glass and on plate.

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Blythburgh Free Range Pork

Blythburgh Free Range Pork is a family business situated on the Suffolk Heritage Coast. We...

published: 09 Feb 2011

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It can be said with reasonable certainty that a new guide to restaurants is the first to feature a herring kiosk in Stockholm, a "wet burger" stand in Istanbul and a diner under a bridge in Hong Kong that majors in spicy crab, called Under Bridge Spicy Crab ... They want something simple, more direct." ... "It serves the most delicious steamed buns filled with high-quality Blythburgh pork belly, hoi sin, chilli sauce and fresh cucumber." ... ....(size: 8.8Kb)

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28 Jul 2012

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The Guardian

02 Feb 2012

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Coordinates: 52°19′01″N 1°36′00″E / 52.317°N 1.6°E / 52.317; 1.6

Blythburgh
Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh
Blythburgh Blythburgh shown within Suffolk
Population	300 ^[1]
District	Suffolk Coastal
Shire county	Suffolk
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
EU Parliament	East of England
List of places: UK • England • Suffolk

Blythburgh is a small English village in an area known as the Sandlings, part of the Suffolk heritage coast. Located close to an area of flooded marshland and mud-flats, in 2007 its population was estimated to be 300.^[1] Blythburgh is best known for its church, Holy Trinity, internationally known as the Cathedral of the Marshes, which is a regular venue for the summer Aldeburgh Festival. The church has been flood-lit since the 1960s and is a landmark for travels on the arterial road to Norfolk.

Close to the village is the site of the Battle of Bulcamp (c. 653).

1 Location and local landmarks
2 The Battle of Bulcamp
3 Famous ex-residents
4 The Church of Holy Trinity
5 Railway
6 References
7 Sources
- 7.1 External links

Location and local landmarks [link]

The milestone in the village shows it is thirty miles from Ipswich, and twenty-four miles south of Great Yarmouth, and is divided by the London trunk road.

The Blyburgh nature reserve

The village is noteworthy for its huge area of flooded marshes which lead to the estuary of the River Blyth, the river flows from west of Halesworth to the North Sea between Southwold and Walberswick. Originally the river joined the sea at Dunwich (one of Parliament's rotten boroughs. Southwold is reached by the A1095, which crosses a causeway near Reydon. The causeway is claimed to have been built by the family of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, passing over Wolsey Creek, using Wolsey Bridge with views over the adjacent Hen Reedbeds bird reserve.

Following the North Sea Flood of 1953 along the east coast the river banks were not repaired which created a large tidal lagoon. The surrounding reed-beds are the haunt of Bittern and Marsh Harrier, the mud-flats are feeding grounds for Shelduck, Avocet and Curlew.

Standing beside the main road to Lowestoft (England's most easterly point), the White Hart Inn owned by Adnams the local brewer, is known for its Dutch gable ends to the building and beamed interior, which is claimed to have been the court-house for this prosperous town in the middle-ages.

Bulcamp later had an infamous workhouse and lies adjacent to Henham Park, the home of the Rous family and site of the annual Latitude Festival. The majority of the land to the south of the village is owned by the Blois family from Cockfield Hall.

Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., eldest brother of US President John F. Kennedy, was killed when his aircraft crashed a mile south of the village during World War II.

Approaching Blythburgh from Darsham, the nearest railway station and the only level-crossing on the A12 road, travellers pass Toby's Walks Picnic Site on the common. The site is named after a young man who was hanged nearby and is reputed to haunt the area. Adjacent to the picnic area is an attractive site of free range pigs,^[2] which are highly prized by major supermarket chains and quality restaurants.

The Battle of Bulcamp [link]

Blythburgh is located in Kingdom of the East Angles

Bulcamp

MERCIA

KINGDOM OF THE EAST ANGLES

In the Battle of Bulcamp, c. 653, Penda of Mercia defeated and killed Anna of East Anglia

Across the river north from Blythburgh is the hamlet of Bulcamp, site of the Battle of Bulcamp in c. 653, when Penda King of Mercia defeated Anna King of East Anglia and slew Anna and his son Jurmin (later St Jurmin).

The Church of Holy Trinity [link]

The parish church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. Known as the Cathedral of the Marshes, Blythburgh was one of the earliest Christian sites in East Anglia. There was a church there in 654 to which the bodies of the East Anglian King Anna and his son, descendants of King Wehha, were brought after their deaths in battle at Bulcamp with the Mercian King Penda. At the time of the Norman Conquest Blythburgh was part of the royal estate and had one of the richest churches in Suffolk, possibly a Saxon Minster, with two daughter churches. It was probably the rich parent church that was granted by King Henry I to Augustinian canons some time between 1116 and 1147, becoming the priory of the Blessed Virgin Mary. A daughter church is likely to have been the predecessor of Holy Trinity. It was rebuilt in the 15th century. In the movement to dissolve the monasteries, the suppression of the priory was authorised in 1528 and it was dissolved in 1537, the reversion of the property being granted to local gentleman Sir Arthur Hopton^[3] in 1548.

The church underwent a series of disasters, man-made and natural. The most dramatic of the latter variety came in August 1577, when a storm hit the area, and during morning service lightning hit the church, "cleft the door, and returning to the steeple rent the timber, [and] brake the chimes". The falling spire damaged the font and the roof (which wasn't repaired until 1782), destroying the angels in the west end bays. The door shows marks, which have the appearance of burns caused by candle flames, which the credulous associate with the devil's fingerprints. They have been associated with the 'Black Shuck' legend, which is the title of a song by the Lowestoft rock group The Darkness which mentions Blythburgh in the lyrics.

During the 17th century Holy Trinity was badly damaged when Parliament set out to remove what the puritans deemed to be superstitious ornamentation from churches; Blythburgh was assigned to William Dowsing, a local puritan, and on 8 April 1644 he went to the church and ordered the removal of "twenty superstitious pictures, one on the outside of the church; two crosses, one on the porch and another on the steeple; and twenty cherubim to be taken down in the church and chancel... and gave order to take down above 200 more within eight days".

Angel from the ceiling of Holy Trinity

General neglect also played its part in the church's deterioration, resulting in part from rural poverty, and in part from the rise of Methodism (a Primitive Methodist chapel was founded in the village in the 1830s).

By the late 19th century the church was in a very poor state of repair, and in 1881 a restoration fund made possible the repair of the church, and then its maintenance after its reopening in 1884. The restoration was controversial with William Morris and his Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings opposed to the radical plans of the local building committee. Shortage of funds restricted the work that could be done. While the fabric was repaired, modern taste ruled out any return to the 15th-century colour scheme of the church; the thirty-six angels, set back to back in pairs on the arch-braced, firred, tie-beam roof had been brightly painted in red and green with much use made of tin foil and gold leaf. A modern reproduction is mounted above the south door.

In 1962 the acoustic value of the building was discovered by Benjamin Britten, and some of the concerts of the Aldeburgh Festival are performed in the church.

The church is open daily and visitors are welcome. The Parish of Blythburgh is part of the Sole Bay Team Ministry, along with the Parishes of Reydon, Sotherton, South Cove, Southwold, Uggeshall, Walberswick and Wangford.

Railway [link]

Blythburgh had a railway station on the narrow gauge Southwold Railway, which ran from Halesworth to the Suffolk coast at Southwold via Walberswick, but this closed, with the rest of the line, on 11 April 1929.

References [link]

^ ^a ^b Suffolk Observatory
^ "Free Range Pigs". Blythburgh Pork. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. http://web.archive.org/web/20070929031340/http://www.freerangepigs.co.uk/the_difference.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-04.
^ "Sir Arthur Hopton". Sole Bay Ministry. http://www.stedmundsbury.anglican.org/solebay/walbers.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-03.

Sources [link]

Hugh Roberts, Mary Montague, & Barry Naylor. Holy Trinity, Blythburgh: Cathedral of the Marshes. Jarrold Publishing, 1999.
History Notes — Blythburgh Society
Holy trinity, Blythburgh — The Suffolk Churches Site
Solebay Ministry — St Edmundsbury & Ipswich Diocese
Blythburgh, Suffolk — photographs of the church and its scorched door
Alan Mackley, Mary Montague. 'Blythburgh. A Suffolk Village'. Blythburgh Church and Jarrold Publishing, 2003.
Blythburgh Village — Suffolk County Council

External links [link]

The Poaching Priors of Blythburgh — Blythburgh Society, 2002, Alan Mackley (ed.)
Map of Village — Blythburgh Net
Jack Pritchard — The Pritchard Papers, UEA Norwich
Peter Wright VC — Wright family website, Suffolk, England
Martin Shaw — Musicweb International
Kenneth Hubbard — The Daily Telegraph
Village Sign — Blythweb, Richard Maslen
Toby's Ghost — Fox Earth
Blythburgh Video Tour — BBC East
Blythburgh Hospital — (Bulcamp) Blything Union Workhouse, Suffolk Churches
Sandlings — Suffolk Coast & Heaths
Priors of Blythburgh — British History
Thirty miles to Ipswich — Milestone Web
Imogen Holst with Benajmin Britten at Blythburgh Church — Britten Pears Library 1956
Blythburgh War Dead — Roll of Honour
Neal's Charity — Charity Commission
Hen Reedbeds - Suffolk Wildlife Trust
Simon Loftus OBE — Morning Advertiser
Joe Kennedy — Flixton Air Museum
Thomas Neale Charity — British Isle Genealogy

v t e Suffolk Coastal

Towns	Aldeburgh Felixstowe Leiston Orford Saxmundham Woodbridge

Civil parishes	Alderton Aldringham cum Thorpe Badingham Bawdsey Benhall Blaxhall Blythburgh Boulge Boyton Bramfield Brandeston Bredfield Brightwell Bromeswell Bruisyard Bucklesham Burgh Butley Campsea Ashe Capel St Andrew Charsfield Chediston Chillesford Clopton Cookley Cransford Cratfield Cretingham Culpho Dallinghoo Darsham Debach Dennington Dunwich Earl Soham Easton Eyke Falkenham Farnham Foxhall Framlingham Friston Gedgrave Great Bealings Great Glemham Grundisburgh Hacheston Hasketon Hemley Heveningham Hollesley Hoo Huntingfield Iken Kelsale cum Carlton Kesgrave Kettleburgh Kirton Knodishall Letheringham Levington Linstead Magna Linstead Parva Little Bealings Little Glemham Marlesford Martlesham Melton Middleton Monewden Nacton Newbourne Otley Parham Peasenhall Pettistree Playford Purdis Farm Ramsholt Rendham Rendlesham Rushmere St Andrew Saxtead Shottisham Sibton Snape Sternfield Stratford St Andrew Stratton Hall Sudbourne Sutton Sweffling Swilland Theberton Thorington Trimley St Martin Trimley St Mary Tuddenham St Martin Tunstall Ubbeston Ufford Walberswick Waldringfield Walpole Wantisden Wenhaston with Mells Hamlet Westerfield Westleton Wickham Market Witnesham Yoxford

Other settlements	Aldringham Sizewell Thorpeness Walton

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v t e Villages on the A145 and A1095 roads

A1095	Blythburgh Southwold

A145	Blythburgh Brampton Willingham St Mary Beccles

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