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Westerfield is a village in
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 ...
, England. It lies about two miles north of the centre of Ipswich in the East Suffolk District, and is served by Westerfield railway station on the Ipswich
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.


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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 village green adjacent to the medieval parish Church of
St Mary Magdalene Mary Magdalene (sometimes called Mary of Magdala, or simply the Magdalene or the Madeleine) was a woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to his crucifixion and resurre ...
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East Anglia East Anglia is an area in the East of England, often defined as including the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. The name derives from the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the East Angles, a people whose name originated in Anglia, in ...
n cleric and Hebrew scholar
Cyprian Thomas Rust Cyprian Thomas Rust (1808–1895) was an English cleric and Hebrew scholar. He combined commercial employment with spare-time linguistic studies. Life Rust was born at Stowmarket, Suffolk, on 25 March 1808, the son of Thomas Rust (1774–1842), ...
(1808–1895) is among those buried. It has fine stained glass windows, of which ''St Mary of Magdala'' was designed by William Morris.


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.


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Westerfield Village
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