Shipmeadow is a village and

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located in the north of the English county of Suffolk. It is in the East Suffolk district, east of Bungay and the same distance west of

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 ...

on the B1062 road.

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is to the north-west. At the 2011 United Kingdom census the parish had a population of 140. The parish council operates jointly with Barsham.Barsham and Shipmeadow parish council
Retrieved 17 February 2021. The parishes share a village hall, but Shipmeadow has no services, with the parish church being sold for use as private housing in 1980.Barsham and Shipmeadow
Healthy Suffolk, 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2021.Knott S (2016

Suffolk Churches. Retrieved 17 February 2021. 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 ...

runs to the north of the parish, with the northern section of the parish within the area of

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National Park. The parish borders the parishes of

Mettingham Mettingham is a village and civil parish 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 bound ...

, Barsham,

Ilketshall St John Ilketshall St John is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of the English county of Suffolk. It is south-east of the market town of Bungay and is part of a group of parishes with similar names known collectively as the Sa ...

and Ilketshall St Andrew. The Norfolk parishes of Ellingham and Geldeston border the parish on the northern bank of the Waveney.

History

Shipmeadow is recorded in the

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of 1086 as Scitmetdua or Scipmedu. This settlement appears on John Speed's 1610 map as Shepemeadow. This shows that the name has more likely to be sheep meadow rather than the current Shipmeadow. In the 1870s,

John Marius Wilson John Marius Wilson (c. 1805–1885) was a British writer and an editor, most notable for his gazetteer A gazetteer is a geographical index or directory used in conjunction with a map or atlas.Aurousseau, 61. It typically contains informati ...

made the following notes about Shipmeadow:

'Shipmeadow, a parish, with a village, in Wangford district, Suffolk; 2½ miles W by S of Beccles r. station. It has a post-office under Beccles. The church was repaired in 1856. The Wangford workhouse is here, has accommodation for about 400 inmates.'

The

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remains, but has since been converted to residential use.

Transport

The B1062 road runs through Shipmeadow, linking it to

to the east and Bungay to the west. The A143 and A146 run to the north of the parish and provide routes to

, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft. The nearest railway station is at

to the east. The microairline Nebo Air intends to operate passenger flights from Shipmeadow Airfield to

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near

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in East London and Wickenby Aerodrome in

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using

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electrically powered light aircraft.UK's NEBO Air to start commercial electric ops
ch-aviation, 2 March 2021. Retrieved 22 July 2021.

References

External links

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