Flixton is a civil parish in the north of the English county of Suffolk. It is north-east of Lowestoft in the East Suffolk district. The parish is sparsely populated with an estimated population of around 40.Blundeston and Flixton
Healthy Suffolk, 2016. Retrieved 2021-03-09.Flixton (nr. Lowestoft)
Suffolk Pubs, Suffolk Campaign for Real Ale. Retrieved 2021-03-09. It borders the parishes of Blundeston, Oulton and Corton. The parish council is operated jointly with Blundeston.Welcome to Blundeston & Flixton Parish Council Website
Blundeston and Flixton Parish Council. Retrieved 2021-03-09. The B1075 Lowestoft to

Somerleyton Somerleyton is a village and former civil parish in the north of the English county of Suffolk. It is north-west of Lowestoft and south-west of Great Yarmouth in the East Suffolk district. The village is closely associated with Somerleyto ...

road crosses the parish.

History

Flixton was recorded 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 manus ...

as "Flixtuna". The parish church, which was dedicated to St Andrew, was at least partly in ruins by the 16th century and was abandoned after the

Great Storm of 1703 The great storm of 1703 was a destructive extratropical cyclone that struck central and southern England on 26 November 1703. High winds caused 2,000 chimney stacks to collapse in London and damaged the New Forest, which lost 4,000 oaks. Ships wer ...

blew off the roof. The ecclesiastical parish was combined with Blundeston. Some ruins, which include 12th-century stonework and Roman bricks possibly reused from the nearby fort at

Burgh Castle Burgh Castle is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated on the east bank of the River Waveney, some west of Great Yarmouth and within the Norfolk Broads National Park. The parish was part of Suffolk until ...

, remain and are protected as a Grade II

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and a

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.Knott
St Andrew Flixton
Suffolk Churches. Retrieved 2021-03-09.Ruins of Church of St Andrew
List entry,

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. Retrieved 2021-03-09.

Flixton Decoy

Flixton Decoy, an area of wooded marshland with a open water lake, is in the west of the parish and within the area of

The Broads The Broads (known for marketing purposes as The Broads National Park) is a network of mostly navigable rivers and lakes in the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. Although the terms "Norfolk Broads" and "Suffolk Broads" are correctly use ...

national park. The lake is believed to have been created as a result of

peat Peat (), also known as turf (), is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter. It is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs. The peatland ecosystem covers and is the most efficient ...

digging. It was the site of a duck decoy owned by the Morse family.Monument record FTN 005 - Flixton Decoy (Med)
Suffolk Heritage Explorer, Suffolk County Council. Retrieved 2021-03-13. Marshland at the edge of the floodplain of the

River Waveney The River Waveney is a river which forms the boundary between Suffolk and Norfolk, England, for much of its length within The Broads. The "ey" part of the name means "river" thus the name is tautological. Course The source of the River Wavene ...

extends to the Decoy, with the Lowestoft to Norwich railway line running just to the west of the parish boundary. The nearest railway stations are at

and Oulton Broad North.

Notes

References

{{East Suffolk Civil parishes in Suffolk Waveney District