Thwaite is a rural village in

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 ...

, England. Thwaite is based on and around the

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, midway between

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and the city of

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, in

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. It forms part of

Mid Suffolk Mid Suffolk is a local government district in Suffolk, England. Its council was based in Needham Market until late 2017, and is currently sharing offices with the Suffolk County Council in Ipswich. The largest town of Mid Suffolk is Stowmarket. ...

district. The village consists of a Public House (The Bucks Head) which has recently undergone a radical refurbishment, a redundant church, a recently restored 'school room' (used for small gatherings and parish meetings), and a post box. Homes include several thatched cottages interspersed with a number of individual houses, seemingly built during each decade right up to the early 2000s. The community includes a number of farms and maintains close links with neighbouring village of

Stoke Ash Stoke Ash is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around six miles south of Diss, in 2011 its population was 314. The village shares a parish council with neighbouring Thwaite. It is l ...

, which has a post office, village hall and primary school. In 1910, Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes dismantled a large timber-framed house, formerly the Queens Head, located next to what is now the A140. He transported it in 688 crates from

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to the US, where it was reconstructed using the timbers of a wrecked English ship, on a hill overlooking

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near

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. It was renamed 'High Low House' - one of its former names whilst standing in Thwaite. The churchyard contains interesting headstones, not least the

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of Orlando Whistlecraft - weather prophet and poet.

Notable residents

* Orlando Whistlecraft (1810–1893), early

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