Wantisden is a small village and
civil parish in the
East Suffolk East Suffolk may refer to the following places in Suffolk, England:
* East Suffolk (county), a county until 1974
* East Suffolk District, a local government district established in 2019
* East Suffolk (UK Parliament constituency), an electoral dist ...
district 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 ...
in eastern
England. Largely consisting of a single farm and
ancient woodland (
Staverton Park and The Thicks), most of its 30 residents live on the farm estate. It shares a parish council with nearby
Butley and
Capel St. Andrew. It has a church dedicated to St John the Baptist.
The place-name 'Wantisden' is first attested in the
Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as ''Wantesdena'' and ''Wantesdana''. The name means 'Want's dene or valley'.
Eilert Ekwall
Bror Oscar Eilert Ekwall (born 8 January 1877 in Vallsjö (now in Sävsjö, Jönköpings län), Sweden, died 23 November 1964 in Lund, Skåne län, Sweden), known as Eilert Ekwall, was Professor of English at Sweden's Lund University from 1909 to ...
, ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names'', p.496
References
External links
* http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SFK/Wantisden/
* http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp?p_id=7848
* http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/england/suffolk/wantisden
Villages in Suffolk
Civil parishes in Suffolk
Suffolk Coastal
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