Mettingham is a village and

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 north of the English county of Suffolk. It is east of the market town of Bungay in the East Suffolk district. It had a population of 211 at the 2011 United Kingdom census. The northern boundary of the parish is formed by the

River Waveney The River Waveney is a river which forms the boundary between Suffolk and Norfolk, England, for much of its length within The Broads. The "ey" part of the name means "river" thus the name is tautological. Course The source of the River Wavene ...

which marks the county boundary with

Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...

. The northern section of the parish is within the area of

The Broads The Broads (known for marketing purposes as The Broads National Park) is a network of mostly navigable rivers and lakes in the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. Although the terms "Norfolk Broads" and "Suffolk Broads" are correctly use ...

National Park. The parish borders the parishes of Bungay, Shipmeadow, Ilketshall St John and the Norfolk parishes of Broome and Ellingham. The B1062 Bungay to

Beccles Beccles ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk.OS Explorer Map OL40: The Broads: (1:25 000) : . The town is shown on the milestone as from London via the A145 and A12 roads, north-east of London as the crow fl ...

road runs through the centre of the parish.Mettingham
Healthy Suffolk, 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2021. In the 1870s, Mettingham was described as: : "a village and a parish in

Wangford Wangford is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Wangford with Henham, in the East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England, just off the A12 trunk road on the edge of the Henham Park estate just outside Southwo ...

district, Suffolk. The village stands near the river Waveney, at the boundary with Norfolk, 2 miles E of Bungay r. station; is a scattered place; and has a postoffice under Bungay." Its church, All Saints, is a round-tower church and about a mile to the south, Mettingham Castle comprises the ruins of a moated medieval fortified manor house, with a medieval monastic college, Mettingham College, in its grounds. The college was relocated to the site in 1394 and was dissolved in 1542 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

All Saints Church

All Saints is one of around 40 round-tower churches in Suffolk. It is a Grade I listed building which was restored in 1898. In 2012, the church was threatened with closure due to the theft of £16,000 worth of lead from its roof: there was insufficient money for repairs on top of daily running costs. The money was raised to replace the lead, but in October 2014, a further section of lead was taken. A cheaper material was used to fix the roof to avoid a recurrence.Hirst A (7 October 2014
Mettingham: Vicar ‘sickened’ by repeated lead theft from All Saints Church says he will no longer replace like for like only to be targeted again
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''. Retrieved 23 February 2015.

Transport

The B1062 road runs through the centre of the parish. Mettingham has very limited public transport with a daily bus service. The closest railway station is

, to the east.

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External links

Website with photos of Mettingham All Saints
a round-tower church {{authority control Villages in Suffolk Civil parishes in Suffolk Waveney District