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Lothingland Rural District
Lothingland was a rural district in East Suffolk, England, named after the ancient half-hundred of Lothingland which was merged with Mutford half-hundred in 1763 to form Mutford and Lothingland. The rural district was formed in 1934 by the merger of most of Mutford and Lothingland Rural District along with part of Blything Rural District, both of which were being abolished. It covered a coastal area between Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft. The district was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, and split between the new districts of borough of Great Yarmouth (in Norfolk) and the district of Waveney, in Suffolk. Statistics Parishes Parishes formerly in Blything RD: Benacre, Covehithe, Easton Bavents, Frostenden, Henham, Henstead, Reydon, South Cove, Uggeshall, Wangford, Wrentham. Formerly in Mutford and Lothingland RD: Ashby, Barnby, Belton, Blundeston, Bradwell, Burgh Castle, Carlton Colville, Corton, Flixton (Lothingland), Fritton, Gisleh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rural District
Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of the Administrative county, administrative counties.__TOC__ England and Wales In England and Wales they were created in 1894 (by the Local Government Act 1894) along with Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), urban districts. They replaced the earlier system of sanitary districts (themselves based on poor law unions, but not replacing them). Rural districts had elected rural district councils (RDCs), which inherited the functions of the earlier sanitary districts, but also had wider authority over matters such as local planning, council house, council housing, and playgrounds and cemeteries. Matters such as education and major roads were the responsibility of county councils. Until 1930 the rural district councillors were also poor law gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benacre, Suffolk
Benacre is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of the English county of Suffolk. The village is located about south of Lowestoft and north-east of Wrentham, between the main A12 road and the North Sea coast. Neighbouring villages include Kessingland and Covehithe with the town of Southwold to the south. The village is dispersed around Benacre Hall, the estate of the Gooch family. It had a population of around 70 in mid-2008.''A profile of Waveney'', Waveney District Council, February 2011. Retrieved 2011-04-18. The population declined dramatically during the 20th century from 216 at the 1901 census.Benacre CP: Historical statistics – population Vision of Britain. Retrieved 2011-05-07. The area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barnby, Suffolk
Barnby is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of the English county of Suffolk.OS Explorer Map OL40: The Broads: (1:25 000) : . The village is west of Lowestoft and east of Beccles in the north of the county. It is effectively merged with the village of North Cove which constitutes a separate parish.Barnby Healthy Suffolk, 2016. Retrieved 2020-02-12. At the the population of the parish was 479. This had fallen slightly from a mid-2005 estimated population of 510. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashby, Suffolk
Ashby is a former civil parish in the north of the English county of Suffolk. It is north-west of Lowestoft in the East Suffolk district. The parish was combined with Somerleyton and Herringfleet to form the combined parish of Somerleyton, Ashby and Herringfleet in 1987. The estimated population of Ashby was around 50 at the 2011 United Kingdom census. There is no village centre, with the population spread across a number of scattered farms and small settlements.Somerleyton, Ashby and Herringfleet Healthy Suffolk, 2016. Retrieved 2021-03-13. The area has always been sparsely populated, with the former parish population never exceeding 110. At the |
Wrentham, Suffolk
Wrentham is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district, in the north-east of the English county of Suffolk. It is located about from the North Sea coast on the A12 trunk road, about south-west of Lowestoft, north of Southwold and south-east of Beccles. The village has several shops, two pubs and a village hall. The parish church is located to the west of the village, and near to it is the old circular brick animal pound, used in the 18th and 19th centuries to contain stray animals rounded up in the parish. History The Old Town Hall, which was designed in the Gothic Revival style, was completed in 1862. During the winter of 1916–17 the 2/7th (Merionethshire & Montgomeryshire) Battalion of the Royal Welch Fusiliers was based at Wrentham. The 2012 Summer Olympics torch relay passed through the village on 5 July. The village gave its name to a Ham-class inshore minesweepers called HMS Wrentham (M2779) which was launched on 8 February 1955. A hamlet in A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wangford
Wangford is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Wangford with Henham, in the East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England, just off the A12 trunk road on the edge of the Henham Park estate just outside Southwold. 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). In 1961 the civil parish had a population of 427. In 1987 the parish was merged with Henham to form "Wangford with Henham". Wangford with Henham has approximately 640 residents,Taken froESTIMATES OF TOTAL POPULATION OF AREAS IN SUFFOLK. 2 August 2009. Page 17. reducing to 591 at the 2011 Census. and the main village covers about . 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, a pub - the Angel Inn, a farm s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uggeshall
Uggeshall is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England, located approximately 6 miles (10 km) south of Beccles and 4 miles (6km) north east of Halesworth close to the A145. The mid-2005 population estimate for Uggeshall parish was 170, reducing to 145 at the 2011 Census.Parish population 2011 Retrieved 2015-09-25. is located just to the south-west, to the south-east and |
South Cove, Suffolk
South Cove is a civil parish in the east of the English county of Suffolk. It is north of the coastal town of Southwold and south of the village of Wrentham in the East Suffolk district. Neighbouring parishes include Covehithe, Frostenden and Reydon as well as Wrentham.South Cove . Retrieved 2023-03-25. The village lies to the east of the main , on the B1127 road between Wrentham and Southwold, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reydon
Reydon is a village and civil parish, north-west of Southwold and south-east of Wangford, in the East Suffolk district and the ceremonial county of Suffolk, England. Its population of 2,567 in 2001 including Easton Bavents eased up to 2,582 at the 2011 Census, and was estimated at 2,772 in 2018. The name probably means ''Rye Hill'', ''Rey'' meaning rye and ''-don'' being an old word for hill or rise).East Anglian Daily Times, 20 October 2007, p. 37. The village is close to the cliffs at Easton Bavents, a village now much eroded. Both were established before neighbouring Southwold. The parish church is St Margaret of Antioch. The parish of Easton Bavents was merged with Reydon in 1987, when part of Southwold was also transferred. Communications and services There are three main roads through Reydon, around which the village is built: A1095 Halesworth heading west to Blythburgh and Halesworth, B1126 Wangford heading north-west through Reydon to Wangford, and B1127 Lowestoft head ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henstead
Henstead is a village near Kessingland and the A12 in the civil parish of Henstead with Hulver Street, in the county of Suffolk, England. It has a church called Church of St Mary which is a Grade I listed building. It has very few housing areas, and is a rural area. It is situated near Rushmere. The parish has a population of 408, and is in the district of East Suffolk, which contains many very similar sized civil parishes. The Private preparatory school, The Old School Henstead, is also located in the village. . The church has a Norman doorway, and an embattled tower. The village stands three miles from the coast, and five miles south-east of Beccles railway station. History The name "Henstead" means 'Hen place'. In 1771 the landscape artist, Thomas Hearne spent six weeks with the young George Beaumont in Henstead at the home of the latter's tutor at Eton Eton most commonly refers to Eton College, a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. Eton may also refer to: Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henham, Suffolk
Henham is a former civil parish now in the parish of Wangford with Henham, in the East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England. In 1961 the parish had a population of 90. The majority of the parish was covered by Henham Park. History The name "Henham" means 'High homestead/village'. Henham was recorded in the Domesday Book as ''Henham''. At this time Ralph Baynard had the lordship. This subsequently passed to Robert Kerdeston remaining in his family until about 1440. It then passed to the de la Pole family. Historically it was in the Blything Hundred and in the Deanery of Dunwich, (Dunwich North for the period 1868 to 1914, when that deanery was administratively divided in three). There are some medieval remains of Henham village along with a moat and church located in Tuttles Wood. Under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1866 Henham became a civil parish in 1866. At the same time the hamlet of Wangford also became a distinct civil parish, but without ecclesiastical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
