Dallinghoo Wield is a former

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 authorit ...

from Dallinghoo village, now in the parish of Dallinghoo, in the East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England. In 1971 the parish had a population of 0. It was claimed to have been the smallest English parish.

History

Dallinghoo Wield was formerly an

extra-parochial area In England and Wales, an extra-parochial area, extra-parochial place or extra-parochial district was a geographically defined area considered to be outside any ecclesiastical or civil parish. Anomalies in the parochial system meant they had no ch ...

, in 1858 it became a civil parish. On 1 April 1985 the parish was abolished and merged into Dallinghoo.

Geography

Dallinghoo Wield covered 38 acres consisting of four small fields and a woodland.

References

Former civil parishes in Suffolk East Suffolk (district) {{Suffolk-geo-stub