Beyton is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

in the

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district of the

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Suffolk Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders 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 Lowes ...

. The village is around east of

Bury St Edmunds Bury St Edmunds (), commonly referred to locally as Bury, is a historic market town, market, cathedral town and civil parish in Suffolk, England.OS Explorer map 211: Bury St.Edmunds and Stowmarket Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – ...

, south-east of Thurston and north-west of

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. The main

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to Bury St Edmunds road used to pass through the village – the modern A14 dual carriageway bypasses the village to the north.All Saints, Beyton
Suffolk Churches website. Retrieved 2016-04-09.

History

According to

Eilert Ekwall Bror Oscar Eilert Ekwall (born 8 January 1877 in Vallsjö (now in Sävsjö, Jönköpings län), Sweden, died 23 November 1964 in Lund, Skåne län, Sweden), known as Eilert Ekwall, was Professor of English at Sweden's Lund University from 1909 to ...

the meaning of the name is homestead by brook or Beaga's homestead. The village is mentioned in the

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 manusc ...

as Begoton or Begatona.Beyton
Domesday Baook Online. Retrieved 2016-04-09. The Domesday village was held by Hugh de Montfort and was a very small settlement with a taxable value of just 0.3 geld units.Beyton
Open Domesday. Retrieved 2016-04-09. The village was a farming community located on the glacial clay of 'High' Suffolk. It grew up around the village green and the along the main

road. The road was turnpiked in 1711 and became an accident 'black spot' in modern times. The village having been bypassed in 1978 with the modern A14 running to the north of the village. A maltings was present in the village in 1855 and a post mill, which had originally been located at

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, was moved to the village in 1830. A conservation area was established in the village in 1973. Beyton Parish Council made both local and national news in 2015 after the chairman's wife blocked a member of the public legally filming a council meeting. The police were called to the scene.

Governance

Beyton parish forms part of the Mid Suffolk district.

All Saints church

The parish church, All Saints, is a Grade II*

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.Church of All Saints, Beyton
British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2016-04-09. It is one of 38 existing

round-tower church Round-tower churches are a type of church found mainly in England, mostly in East Anglia; of about 185 surviving examples in the country, 124 are in Norfolk, 38 in Suffolk, six in Essex, three in Sussex and two each in Cambridgeshire and Berkshi ...

es in Suffolk. The church tower is believed to be Saxon in origin, although the present tower has been dated to the 13th century. The building was heavily restored in the 19th century. The church is not mentioned in the Domesday Book entry for the village.''Conservation Area Appraisal'', Mid Suffolk District Council, 2009.
Available online
), retrieved 2016-04-09.

Education

Beyton Middle School enrolled about 700 pupils from age 9 to 13 with the majority of students coming from surrounding villages. The school closed in July 2014 as part of a reorganisation of schools to a two tier structure by

Suffolk County Council Suffolk County Council is the administrative authority for the county of Suffolk, England. It is run by 75 elected county councillors representing 63 divisions. It is a member of the East of England Local Government Association. History Establ ...

that saw students stay in primary school to age 11 where they would then transfer on to secondary schools, mostly

Thurston Community College Thurston Community College is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form located in Thurston, Suffolk, England. As of 2018, it has 1,733 students aged 11–18 drawn from the local village and surrounding rural communities. History Thn ...

Stowupland High School Stowupland High School is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form situated in the Suffolk village Stowupland. It caters for students aged 11–18 from Year 7 - Year 11 in the main school and Year 12 and 13 in the Sixth Form. Previousl ...

County Upper School Bury St Edmunds County Upper School is a 13 to 19 co-educational comprehensive high-performing academy part of the Bury St Edmunds All-Through Trust, comprising County Upper School, Horringer Court School, Westley School and Barrow CEVC and Toll ...

in Bury St Edmunds. The site is now used by Thurston Community College as part of its sixth form provision.

Notable people

Robert Dewing Robert Henry Dewing (6 August 1863 – 6 November 1934) was an English first-class cricketer and an army officer. Dewing served initially in the Caribbean with the West India Regiment from 1884, before transferring to the British Indian Army ...

(1863–1934), cricketer and army officer

References

External links

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