Gedgrave is a
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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* East Suffolk (county), a county until 1974
* East Suffolk District, a local government district established in 2019
* East Suffolk (UK Parliament constituency), an electoral dist ...
district, in the English county of
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 ...
in eastern England. In 2005, its population was 30.
[ Gedgrave once had a church called St Andrews. The village is part of a joint parish council with Orford.
Gedgrave gives its name to the Gedgravian Stage of the ]Pliocene
The Pliocene ( ; also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58[Epoch
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in British geological stratigraphy
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Stratigrap ...
. The Sites of Special Scientific Interest Gedgrave Hall Pit
Gedgrave Hall Pit is a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gedgrave, south of Saxmundham in Suffolk. It is a Geological Conservation Review site, and it is in the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
The si ...
and Richmond Farm Pit are situated close by.[http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1004178.pdf ]
References
External links
Orford and Gedgrave Parish Council
Civil parishes in Suffolk
Suffolk Coastal
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