Westerfield is a village in

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, England. It lies about two miles north of the centre of

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in the

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, and is served by

Westerfield railway station Westerfield railway station is on a branch line off the Great Eastern Main Line, in the East of England, serving the village of Westerfield, Suffolk. It is down the line from and measured from London Liverpool Street. It is situated at a junc ...

on the

–

Lowestoft Lowestoft ( ) is a coastal town and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England.OS Explorer Map OL40: The Broads: (1:25 000) : . As the most easterly UK settlement, it is north-east of London, north-east of Ipswich and sou ...

East Suffolk Line.

Amenities

Westerfield has two public houses, ''The Swan'' in northern Westerfield and ''The Westerfield Railway'' in the south. Both serve meals and contribute much to local social activity. Central Westerfield has a

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adjacent to the medieval parish Church of

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n cleric and

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scholar

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(1808–1895) is among those buried. It has fine stained glass windows, of which ''St Mary of Magdala'' was designed by

William Morris William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, artist, novelist, architectural conservationist, printer, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He ...

Population

The population of Westerfield with

Culpho Culpho (pronounced Cul-fo) is a hamlet and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, about northeast of the centre of Ipswich and west of Woodbridge. Culpho's population is less than 100, so the Office for National Statistics i ...

was estimated at 486 in 2019 and measured at 442 in the 2011 Census.

References

External links

Westerfield Village
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