Ilketshall St Lawrence 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 authorit ...

in the East Suffolk district of the English county of Suffolk. It is south-east of the market town of Bungay and is part of a group of parishes with similar names known collectively as the Saints. The parish is spread along a stretch of the

A144 road The A144 is an A road in the English county of Suffolk. It runs from the town of Bungay, close to the border with Norfolk, to the A12 trunk road near the village of Darsham, passing through the market town of Halesworth. It is around in le ...

which runs between Bungay and

Halesworth Halesworth is a market town, civil parish and electoral ward in north-eastern Suffolk, England. The population stood at 4,726 in the 2011 Census. It lies south-west of Lowestoft, on a tributary of the River Blyth, upstream from Southwold. T ...

. It has an elongated shape, with the parish church located close to the northern border of the parish and the village school, Ilketshall St Lawrence primary school, located close to the southern border.St Lawrence, Ilketshall
Healthy Suffolk, 2016. Retrieved 2021-02-21. At the 2011 United Kingdom census the parish had a population of 158. It has an area of and borders the parishes of Ilketshall St Andrew,

Ilketshall St John Ilketshall St John is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of the English county of Suffolk. It is south-east of the market town of Bungay and is part of a group of parishes with similar names known collectively as the Sa ...

Ilketshall St Margaret Ilketshall St Margaret is a village and civil parish in the north of the English county of Suffolk. It is south of the market town of Bungay in the East Suffolk district. The parish is part of the area known as the Saints and had a populati ...

and

Spexhall Spexhall is a village and civil parish in the north-east of the English county of Suffolk. The village, which is dispersed in nature, is around north of the market town of Halesworth Halesworth is a market town, civil parish and electora ...

. Other than the school and the parish church, there are few services in the village. A garage and petrol station are located on the main road and an apple juice and cider making business operates from the parish.Suffolk Apple Juice and Cider Place

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. Retrieved 2021-02-21. A public house, the ''Huntsman and Hounds'', lies just south of the parish boundary in the hamlet of Stone Street, part of Spexhall parish.Spexhall
Suffolk Pubs, Campaign for Real Ale. Retrieved 2021-02-21. The parish church, which is dedicated to

St Lawrence Saint Lawrence or Laurence ( la, Laurentius, lit. " laurelled"; 31 December AD 225 – 10 August 258) was one of the seven deacons of the city of Rome under Pope Sixtus II who were martyred in the persecution of the Christians that the Roman ...

, dates from the 12th-century, although there was a church on the site at the time of 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 ...

.Parish: Ilketshall St. Lawrence
Suffolk Heritage Explorer, Suffolk County Council. Retrieved 2021-02-21. The tower dates from the 15th-century.Church of St Lawrence
List entry,

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. Retrieved 2021-02-21.Knott S (2020
St Lawrence, Ilketshall St Lawrence
Suffolk Churches. Retrieved 2021-02-21. The church is a Grade II* listed building and is believed to be built on a Roman site, with pottery found in the grounds in 1929.Monument record ISL 004 - Church of St Lawrence (Rom)
Suffolk Heritage Explorer, Suffolk County Council. Retrieved 2021-02-21.

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Ilketshall St Lawrence school
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