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Babergh District
Babergh District (pronounced , ) is a local government district in Suffolk, England. Primarily a rural area, Babergh contains two towns of notable size: Sudbury, and Hadleigh, which was the administrative centre until 2017. Its council headquarters, which are shared with neighbouring Mid Suffolk, are now based in Ipswich. The district was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the borough of Sudbury, Hadleigh Urban District, Cosford Rural District, Melford Rural District and Samford Rural District. The district did not have one party of councillors (nor a formal coalition of parties) exercising overall control until 2015. Babergh's population size has increased by 5.2%, from around 87,700 in 2011 to 92,300 in 2021 and covers an area of approximately . It is named after the Babergh Hundred, referred to in the Domesday Book of 1086, although it also covers the hundreds of Cosford and Samford. The southern boundary of the district is marked almost exclusively by the River St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenwich Mean Time
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, counted from midnight. At different times in the past, it has been calculated in different ways, including being calculated from noon; as a consequence, it cannot be used to specify a particular time unless a context is given. The term 'GMT' is also used as one of the names for the time zone UTC+00:00 and, in UK law, is the basis for civil time in the United Kingdom. English speakers often use GMT as a synonym for Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). For navigation, it is considered equivalent to UT1 (the modern form of mean solar time at 0° longitude); but this meaning can differ from UTC by up to 0.9s. The term GMT should thus not be used for purposes that require precision. Because of Earth's uneven angular velocity in its elliptical orbit and its axial tilt, noon (12:00:00) GMT is rarely the exact moment the Sun crosses the Greenwich Meridian and reaches its highest po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sudbury, Suffolk
Sudbury (, ) is a market town in the south west of Suffolk, England, on the River Stour near the Essex border, north-east of London. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 13,063. It is the largest town in the Babergh local government district and part of the South Suffolk constituency. Sudbury was an Anglo-Saxon settlement from the end of the 8th century, and its market was established in the early 11th century. Its textile industries prospered in the Late Middle Ages, the wealth of which funded many of its buildings and churches. The town became notable for its art in the 18th century, being the birthplace of Thomas Gainsborough, whose landscapes offered inspiration to John Constable, another Suffolk painter of the surrounding Stour Valley area. The 19th century saw the arrival of the railway with the opening of a station on the historic Stour Valley Railway, and Sudbury railway station forms the current terminus of the Gainsborough Line. In World War II, US Army Air ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essex
Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and Greater London to the south and south-west. There are three cities in Essex: Southend, Colchester and Chelmsford, in order of population. For the purposes of government statistics, Essex is placed in the East of England region. There are four definitions of the extent of Essex, the widest being the ancient county. Next, the largest is the former postal county, followed by the ceremonial county, with the smallest being the administrative county—the area administered by the County Council, which excludes the two unitary authorities of Thurrock and Southend-on-Sea. The ceremonial county occupies the eastern part of what was, during the Early Middle Ages, the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Essex. As well as rural areas and urban areas, it forms part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Stour, Suffolk
The River Stour () is a river in East Anglia, England. It is long and forms most of the county boundary between Suffolk to the north, and Essex to the south. It rises in eastern Cambridgeshire, passes to the east of Haverhill, through Cavendish, Bures, Sudbury, Nayland, Stratford St Mary, Dedham and flows through the Dedham Vale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It becomes tidal just before Manningtree in Essex and joins the North Sea at Harwich. Etymology and usage The name is of ambiguous and disputed origin. On one theory, the name ''Stour'' derives from the Celtic ''sturr'' meaning "strong". However, the river-name ''Stour'', common in England, does not occur at all in Wales; Crawford noted two tributaries of the Po River near Turin, spelled ''Stura''. In Germany the ''Stoer'' is a tributary of the River Elbe. According to ''Brewer's Britain and Ireland'' the ''Stour'' is pronounced differently in different cases: the Kentish and East Anglian Stours rhyme with ''to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samford Hundred
Samford was a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of . It was situated to the south and south west of Ipswich. The hundred was bounded by the River Orwell to the east, Essex to the south, the River Brett (and Shelley parish) to the west, and the parish boundaries of Burstall, Hintlesham Hintlesham is a small village in Suffolk, England, situated roughly halfway between Ipswich and Hadleigh. It is in the Belstead Brook electoral division of Suffolk County Council. The village is notable for Hintlesham Hall, a 16th-century Grad ... and Sproughton to the north. Parishes Samford Hundred consisted of the following 28 parishes:1841 Census References {{Coord, 52.0, 1.11, type:adm3rd_dim:20000_region:GB-SFK, display=title Hundreds of Suffolk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cosford Hundred
Cosford was a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of . The hundred consisted of Hadleigh, the only town of any size, and seventeen other parishes in western Suffolk. The area is undulating and agriculturally-fertile with clay soil, watered by the River Brett and its tributary streams. It is about in length from north to south and around five wide, and is bounded by the Hundreds of Samford, Babergh, Thedwestry, Stow and Bosmere and Claydon. Cosford was in Coxford Union in the Liberty of St Edmund and in the Deanery and Archdeaconry of Sudbury. The area was until the nineteenth century part of the diocese of Norwich until it was moved to that of Ely. Hadleigh itself however is a peculiar of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Listed as ''Cursforde'' in the Domesday Book and subsequently known for a period as Corsford or Corsforth, the name Cosford means "ford of the river Cors or Corsa". Parishes Cosford Hundred consisted of the following 17 parishes:1841 Census †''Hadleigh hamlet i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domesday Book
Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by the Latin name ''Liber de Wintonia'', meaning "Book of Winchester", where it was originally kept in the royal treasury. The '' Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' states that in 1085 the king sent his agents to survey every shire in England, to list his holdings and dues owed to him. Written in Medieval Latin, it was highly abbreviated and included some vernacular native terms without Latin equivalents. The survey's main purpose was to record the annual value of every piece of landed property to its lord, and the resources in land, manpower, and livestock from which the value derived. The name "Domesday Book" came into use in the 12th century. Richard FitzNeal wrote in the '' Dialogus de Scaccario'' ( 1179) that the bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babergh Hundred
Babergh was a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of . Its name survives in that of Babergh District, the local government district of southern Suffolk that includes the former hundred as well as those of Cosford and Samford. It consisted of the land to the north, east and south east of Sudbury, the hundred's largest town, and its southern boundary forms the border with Essex. The majority of the land is rural. It was listed as ''Baberga'' in the Domesday Book and the name is believed to mean "Mound of a man called Babba". The name derives from Babergh Heath, an area of land around the villages of Great and Little Waldingfield. The village of Great Waldingfield Great Waldingfield is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk, England about two miles (3 km) north-east of Sudbury and two miles (3 km) south-west of its sister village, Little Waldingfield. The village is spli ... is home to Babergh Hall, the ancient meeting place of the hundred. Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samford Rural District
Samford Rural District was a rural district within the administrative county of East Suffolk between 1894 and 1974. It was created out of the earlier Samford rural sanitary district. It was named after the historic hundred of Samford, whose boundaries it closely matched. Under the East Suffolk County Review Order of 1934, the only changes made were a revision of the boundary with the county borough of Ipswich. This boundary was revised again in 1952. Under the Local Government Act 1972, Samford Rural District was abolished in 1974, and its area became part of the district of Babergh. Statistics Parishes Samford RD contained the parishes of Belstead, Bentley, Brantham, Burstall, Capel St Mary, Chattisham, Chelmondiston, Copdock, East Bergholt, Erwarton, Freston, Great Wenham, Harkstead, Higham, Hintlesham, Holbrook, Holton St Mary, Little Wenham, Raydon, Shelley, Shotley, Sproughton, Stratford St Mary, Stutton, Tattingstone, Washbrook, Wherstead Wherstead is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melford Rural District
Melford Rural District was a rural district in the county of West Suffolk, England. It was created in 1894, under the Local Government Act 1894 from that part of the Sudbury rural sanitary district in West Suffolk (the rest becoming Belchamp Rural District in Essex). It was named after Long Melford and administered from Sudbury. Shortly after its creation, in 1896, the parish of Glemsford was made a separate urban district. On 1 April 1935 it lost the parishes of Cavendish and Hawkedon to the Clare Rural District. At the same time the Glemsford Urban District was abolished and restored to the district. Since 1 April 1974 it has formed part of the District of Babergh. Parishes At the time of its dissolution it consisted of the following 21 civil parishes. * Acton *Alpheton *Assington * Boxted * Bures St. Mary * Chilton *Glemsford *Great Cornard *Great Waldingfield *Hartest *Lawshall * Leavenheath *Little Cornard * Little Waldingfield *Long Melford *Nayland-with-Wissington * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cosford Rural District
Cosford Rural District was a rural district in the county of West Suffolk, England. It was created in 1894 out of the earlier Cosford rural sanitary district, except for Hadleigh parish which was made a separate urban district. Only minor adjustments were made to its boundary in the reorganisation of 1935. It was named after the historic hundred 100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101. In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to des ... of Cosford, although the rural district covered a significantly larger area that included most of Cosford hundred (with the notable exception of Hadleigh) and part of the neighbouring hundred of Babergh. Since 1 April 1974 it has formed part of the local government district of Babergh. Parishes Cosford RD contained the parishes of Statistics References History of Suffolk D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hadleigh Urban District
Hadleigh may refer to: *Hadleigh, Suffolk, a town in Suffolk **Hadleigh Railway, a seven and a half mile long single-track railway branch-line from Bentley to Hadleigh, Suffolk (now closed) ** Hadleigh High School, a high school in Hadleigh, Suffolk ** Hadleigh railway station, a railway station in Hadleigh, Suffolk ** Hadleigh United F.C., a football club in Hadleigh, Suffolk *Hadleigh, Essex, a town in Essex ** Hadleigh Bus Depot, one of the depots used by First Essex **Hadleigh Castle, a castle near Hadleigh, Essex * ''Hadleigh'' (TV series), a British television series made by Yorkshire Television * Boze Hadleigh, an American journalist who writes of celebrity gossip and entertainment *HMS Hadleigh Castle (K355), a Castle-class corvette of Britain's Royal Navy * Hadleigh Heath, a hamlet near Hadleigh, Suffolk See also * Hadley (other) Hadley may refer to: Places Canada * Hadley Bay, on the north of Victoria Island, Nunavut England * Hadley, London, a former ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
