Burstall is a village and

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in Suffolk, England. Located around west of

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, it is part of Babergh district. The parish includes the

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of Burstallhill. Recorded in the

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as Burgestala / Burghestala. It is in the Belstead Brook

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of Suffolk County Council. The south-western boundary of the parish is delineated by Belstead Brook, a tributary of the

River Orwell The River Orwell flows through the county of Suffolk in England from Ipswich to Felixstowe. Above Ipswich, the river is known as the River Gipping, but its name changes to the Orwell at Stoke Bridge, where the river becomes tidal. It broadens in ...

. The A1071 between Ipswich and Hadleigh crosses Belstead Brook at Burstall Bridge. Burstall Hall is ⅔ mile (1 km) northeast from the village. Burstall Hall - geograph

Mill Farm is to the west and Hill Farm to the east. The village hall built in 1910 in memory of John Cranfield. It is a

Mock Tudor Tudor Revival architecture (also known as mock Tudor in the UK) first manifested itself in domestic architecture in the United Kingdom in the latter half of the 19th century. Based on revival of aspects that were perceived as Tudor architecture ...

building with a recent lottery grant improvements. No alcohol is sold in the hall. Burstall village hall - geograph

The Half Moon public house closed in 1968 and the Post office closed in 2006.

St Mary's Church

The

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of St Mary has been a Grade I

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since 22 February 1955. It is largely early fourteenth-century and fifteenth-century and was restored in 1866 and again, between 1870 and 1873, by Frederick Barnes of Ipswich.

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Babergh District Civil parishes in Suffolk Villages in Suffolk {{suffolk-geo-stub