Letheringham is a sparsely populated
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...
in the
East Suffolk district (formerly
Deben Rural District and then
Suffolk Coastal) in Suffolk, England, on the
Deben River.
St Mary is a tiny church, the remains of the tower and nave of a Priory church, and sits in a farmyard. It is open 24 hours a day.
For over 1000 years Letheringham has been a parish of ancient
Loes Hundred, a unit of government never technically abolished whose functions were transferred in the late 19th century to various modern divisions of government.
From the 2011 Census population details were no longer maintained for this parish and were included in the civil parish of
Hoo.
Personalities
*
Robert Naunton
Sir Robert Naunton (1563 – 27 March 1635) was an English writer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1606 and 1626.
Family
Robert Naunton was the son of Henry Naunton of Alderton, Suffolk, and Elizabeth As ...
(1563–1635), English politician and writer : location of death
* Sir
Robert Wingfield of Letheringham (1403–1454), a son of a senior Sir Robert Wingfield (c. 1370 – 3 May 1409) and Elizabeth Russell
* Captain
Edward Maria Wingfield
Edward Maria Wingfield, sometimes hyphenated as ''Edward-Maria Wingfield'' (1550 in Stonely Priory, near Kimbolton – 1631) was a soldier, Member of Parliament, (1593) and English colonist in America. He was the son of Thomas Maria Wingfield, ...
(1550–1631), a soldier, Member of Parliament, (1593) and English colonist in America
* ''
Akenfield'', a 1976 film was partly shot on location in Letheringham.
References
External links
Photographs of Letheringham on flickr.com
Villages in Suffolk
Civil parishes in Suffolk
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