Copdock and Washbrook is a

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in the Babergh district in the county of

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, England. It covers the villages of

Copdock Copdock is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Copdock and Washbrook, in the Babergh District, Babergh district, in the county of Suffolk, England. In 1961 the civil parish had a population of 399. Location Copdock is south ...

and Washbrook, as well as the

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of Coles Green, Mace Green and Washbrook Street. In 2006 the parish had an estimated population of 1,130. The population was measured at 1,114 in the 2011 Census. It is in the Belstead Brook

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Geography

The parish was formed in 1994 by a merger of the individual parishes of

and Washbrook. However Washbrook lost some of its north-eastern land area to

Sproughton Sproughton ( ) is a village in Suffolk, England, just to the west of Ipswich and is in the Babergh administrative district. It has a church, a primary school, a pub (the Wild Man, which has been closed since 2020), a community shop and various ...

and Pinewood, whilst Copdock's eastern boundary with

Belstead Belstead is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district of the English county of Suffolk. Located on the southern edge of Ipswich, around south-west of Ipswich town centre. It had a population of 202 according to the 2011 census. Belst ...

was redrawn to match the new route of the A12. The A12 previously ran through both Copdock and Washbrook, but the villages were bypassed when the A12- A14 Copdock interchange was built. The old A12 is now a C road (the C475), with the new A12 marking the parish's eastern boundary with Belstead and

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References

External links

Parish council website
Civil parishes in Suffolk Babergh District {{Suffolk-geo-stub