Chediston is a village and a civil parish on the B1123 road, in the
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district, in the
English county of
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 ...
. It is located 2 miles west of
Halesworth, its post town. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was 195 and in 2018 it was estimated to be 234.
Parish church
Chediston has a
parish church, dedicated to
St Mary
Mary; arc, ܡܪܝܡ, translit=Mariam; ar, مريم, translit=Maryam; grc, Μαρία, translit=María; la, Maria; cop, Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ, translit=Maria was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of ...
. The bulk of the current building dates from the 13th century and the 15th century, although there are traces of Norman stonework, and some Victorian restoration features, including much of the glass.
History
Chediston, mentioned in the Doomsday book 1086 also known as Cedestan, Cheddeston, Sedestane and other variations is thought to take its name from Saint Cedd (Cedd's town). Another possibility is that Cedd preached from a large glacial erattic stone (Cedd's stone) which can still be seen at Rockstone in Chediston. The parish was once administered by the Augustinian Order, based in Pentney, Norfolk, along with four other parishes.
Chediston Green
There is a dispersed settlement at Chediston Green lying about half a mile away from the church to the north. The
pub at Chediston Green, named The Duke of Wellington, is now closed and has been converted into a private dwelling.
Civil parish
Chediston shares a parish council with the nearby villages of
Linstead Magna
Linstead Magna is a civil parish in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England.
Population and civil parish
In 2005 its population was 60. It shares a civil parish council with nearby Chediston and Linstead Parva. At the 2011 Cens ...
and
Linstead Parva
Linstead Parva is a small village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. It has a small but notable 13th-century parish church, still in regular use. The village pub, The Greyhound, was already established ...
.
Notable residents
*
Walter Plumer,
Member of Parliament for
Aldeburgh
Location grid
References
* https://web.archive.org/web/20101022033245/http://www.onesuffolk.co.uk/chedistonandlinsteadpc
* http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SFK/Chediston/index.html
Villages in Suffolk
Civil parishes in Suffolk
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