Santon is a depopulated village located near

Santon Downham Santon Downham is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. In 2005 it had a population of 240.Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...

, England. Moated earthworks and other remains of the medieval village are a

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. The villages name means 'Sandy farm/settlement'. The village church of All Saints' was rebuilt from ruins in the 17th century by Thomas Bancrofte, the sole parishioner at that time. The site is adjacent to the

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's St Helen's picnic site.

References

http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Santon Villages in Norfolk Scheduled monuments in Norfolk Breckland District {{Norfolk-geo-stub