Naughton is a village and former civil parish, now in the civil parish of
Nedging-with-Naughton, in the
Babergh Babergh may refer to the following places in England:
* Babergh Hundred, a defunct hundred of the county of Suffolk, named for a "mound of a man called Babba"
* Babergh District
Babergh District (pronounced , ) is a local government district in ...
district, in the county 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 ...
, England.
It is north-west of
Ipswich
Ipswich () is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England, of which it is the county town. The town is located in East Anglia about away from the mouth of the River Orwell and the North Sea. Ipswich is both on the Great Eastern Main Line ...
and south-west of
Stowmarket. It was historically within the
Cosford Hundred Cosford was a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of .
The hundred consisted of Hadleigh, the only town of any size, and seventeen other parishes in western Suffolk. The area is undulating and agriculturally-fertile with clay soil, watered by the Rive ...
of Suffolk. The civil parish was merged with
Nedging
Nedging is a village and former civil parish on the B1115 road, now in the parish of Nedging-with-Naughton, in the Babergh district, in the county of Suffolk, England. The nearest town is Hadleigh, there is also the hamlet of Nedging Tye nearby ...
in 1935 to create Nedging-with-Naughton. In 1931 the civil parish had a population of 98.
Naughton is formed from the junction of two roads, the Whatfield Road which comes in from the south-west and heads north to
Nedging Tye and New Road which comes in from the south-east. St. Mary's church is a 14th-century flint built church stands at the centre of the village, just west of this junction.
History
Sir Henry Adair was lord of the manor in the past.
Present day
It lies just to the south of RAF Wattisham. There is one pub in the village, the Wheelhouse (formerly Wheeler's Arms), that dates from the 17th century.
There are four farms in the area: Cooper's Farm (to the north), Brickhouse Farm (to the east), Fidget's Farm (to the south-west), and High Tree Farm (to the south).
References
External links
Suffolk CAMRAThe Wheelhouse at Naughton
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Villages in Suffolk
Former civil parishes in Suffolk
Babergh District