Freston is a small village and

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in the Babergh district, in the county of Suffolk, England, located on the Shotley Peninsula, 4 miles south-east of

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. In 2001 the parish had a population of 122, reducing slightly to 120 at the 2011 Census.

History

Bubonic plague

Freston is notable as the location of the last outbreak of bubonic plague in England in 1910. The centre of the outbreak was Latimer Cottages, where it is thought plague-bearing rats may have come ashore with smuggled goods. However, the diagnosis of plague has been disputed.

Amenities and places of interest

* St. Peter's Church * The Freston Boot public house, which closed in 2010 and reopened in 2018 * Freston Wood * Freston Tower, either a lookout tower or a

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Transport

For transport there is the B1456 road nearby.

Notable residents

William Latymer William Latymer or Latimer (1499–1583) was an English evangelical clergyman, Dean of Peterborough from 1560. He was chaplain to Anne Boleyn, and is best known for his biography of her, the ''Chronickille of Anne Bulleyne''. Life He was the thir ...

(1499–1583), evangelical clergyman,

Dean of Peterborough The Dean of Peterborough is the head of the chapter at Peterborough Cathedral. On the Dissolution of Peterborough Abbey in 1539 and the abbey-church's refoundation as a cathedral for the new bishop and diocese of Peterborough, care for the abbey ...

from 1560. He was chaplain to

Anne Boleyn Anne Boleyn (; 1501 or 1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the second wife of King Henry VIII. The circumstances of her marriage and of her execution by beheading for treason and other charges made her a key ...

Isaac Eastey Isaac Eastey (November 27, 1627 – June 11, 1712) was the English-born husband of Mary Eastey, who was executed during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 in North America. Isaac and Mary were both highly respected members of the Salem Village Churc ...

(1627-1712), husband of

Mary Eastey Mary Towne Eastey (also spelled Esty, Easty, Estey, Eastick, Eastie, or Estye) ( bap. August 24, 1634 – September 22, 1692) was a defendant in the Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts. She was executed by hanging in Salem in 1692. ...

, who was executed during the

Salem Witch Trials The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused. Thirty people were found guilty, 19 of whom w ...

Clara Reeve Clara Reeve (23 January 1729 – 3 December 1807) was an English novelist best known for the Gothic novel ''The Old English Baron'' (1777). She also wrote an innovative history of prose fiction, ''The Progress of Romance'' (1785). Her first work ...

(1729-1807), novelist best known for the Gothic novel ''

The Old English Baron ''The Old English Baron'' is an early Gothic novel by the English author Clara Reeve. It was first published under this title in 1778, although it had anonymously appeared in 1777 under its original name of ''The Champion of Virtue'', before Samu ...

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Foster Barham Zincke Foster Barham Zincke (5 January 1817 – 23 August 1893) was a clergyman, a traveller, and an antiquary, . Zincke was born on 5 January 1817 at Eardley, a sugar estate in Jamaica. He was the third son of Frederick Burt Zincke, of Jamaica, by ...

(1817-1893), clergyman, a traveller, and an antiquary

References

External links

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