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Whitton, Ipswich
Whitton is an area of Ipswich and once a separate village. It is now a Whitton Ward, Ipswich, ward of Ipswich Borough Council in Suffolk, England. The civil parish of Whitton, Mid Suffolk, Whitton in Mid Suffolk district doesn't include the suburb. The site of a Roman villa, the village is thought to have been a Anglo-Saxons, Saxon colony, possibly dating from the Saxon invasion of around 430 AD. It appears in the Domesday Book as Widituna, possibly meaning Hwita's farm or White's farm. Whitton Church Whitton is a village with Saxon origins and it is likely that a small place of worship has been here from the earliest times. At some point in the sixth or seventh century Christianity arrived in the area and this building would have been converted to Christian use. The Domesday Book (1086) lists a church at Whitton (Widetuna) as well as one at Thurleston (Turestuna). Nothing of either the Saxon or the Norman building remains, however, the original ground plan of the present churc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borough Of Ipswich
Ipswich () is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England. It is the county town, and largest in Suffolk, followed by Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds, and the third-largest population centre in East Anglia, after Peterborough and Norwich. It is northeast of London and in 2011 had a population of 144,957. The Ipswich built-up area is the fourth-largest in the East of England and the 42nd-largest in England and Wales. It includes the towns and villages of Kesgrave, Woodbridge, Bramford and Martlesham Heath. Ipswich was first recorded during the medieval period as ''Gippeswic'', the town has also been recorded as ''Gyppewicus'' and ''Yppswyche''. It has been continuously inhabited since the Saxon period, and is believed to be one of the oldest towns in the United Kingdom.Hills, Catherine"England's Oldest Town" Retrieved 2 August 2015. The settlement was of great economic importance to the Kingdom of England throughout its history, particularly in trade, with the town's historic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castle Hill Roman Villa
The Castle Hill Roman villa has been described as "the largest and most sophisticated villa complex known in Suffolk". Under what is now housing in Tranmere Grove and Chesterfield Drive in the old village of Whitton (now a suburb of Ipswich) lies the remains of a Roman villa. It was first excavated in 1931. It was excavated again in 1949 by the archaeologist Basil Brown before residential building started. Coins were found along with a mosaic floor which is on display in Ipswich Museum. It featured on Channel 4's archaeological television programme ''Time Team ''Time Team'' is a British television programme that originally aired on Channel 4, Channel 4 from 16 January 1994 to 7 September 2014. It returned in 2022 on online platforms YouTube and Patreon. Created by television produce ...'' in 2004. The dig helped provide more evidence to supplement that gathered in the 1949 dig. References {{UK-archaeology-stub Archaeological sites in Suffolk Villas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitton United F
Whitton may refer to: People * Whitton (singer-songwriter), American singer-songwriter ** ''Whitton'' (EP), 2010 * Charlotte Whitton (1896–1975), Canadian feminist and Mayor of Ottawa * David Whitton (born 1952), Scottish politician * Donald Whitton (born 1923), Canadian cellist, and teacher * Evan Whitton (1928–2018), Australian journalist * Geoff Whitton (born 1942), Australian rules footballer * Ivo Whitton (1893–1967), Australian golfer * John Whitton (1820–1898), Australian rail engineer * Margaret Whitton (1949–2016), American actress * Mary Whitton, American computer graphics researcher * Michael Whitton, American film director * Nicola Whitton (born 1972), British academic and author * Steve Whitton (born 1960), English footballer * Tiffany Whitton (born 1987), American woman missing since 2013 * An English family, of which, to escape the persecution made to the Roman Catholics, John then João Whitton and his wife Apollonia then Apolónia Sabat passed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Non-League Football
Non-League football describes association football, football leagues played outside the top leagues of a country. Usually, it describes leagues which are not fully professional. The term is primarily used for football in England, where it is specifically used to describe all football played at levels below those of the Premier League (20 clubs) and the three divisions of the English Football League (EFL; 72 clubs). Currently, a non-League team would be any club playing in the National League (English football), National League or below that level. Typically, non-League clubs are either semi-professional or amateur in status, although the majority of clubs in the National League (division), National League division (level 5) are fully professional, some of which are former EFL clubs who have suffered relegation. The term ''non-League'' was commonly used in England long before the creation of the Premier League in 1992, prior to which the top List of football clubs in England, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bramford
Bramford is a village in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. It is three miles west of Ipswich of which it forms part of the wider Ipswich Built-up area. It was recorded in the Domesday Book as "Brunfort" or "Branfort". The River Gipping (the source of the River Orwell), runs at the bottom of the village and was a busy navigable waterway during the 19th century. A lock is still on the east of side of the village. The village has two churches; (one Anglican, St Mary the Virgin viewable from Bramford Bridge in the southeast of the village and one Methodist) in the north west of the village on the B1067 road. Bramford railway station was originally on the Eastern Union Railway but closed in 1955. The village is served by a variety of shops and services; a primary school (southwest), a pub (the Cock), a sports ground, a bowls club and other social groups, including a football club which has a first and reserve team. There is a private care village which is called Cherry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claydon, Suffolk
Claydon is a village just north of Ipswich in Suffolk, England. The meaning of the name is "clay-on-the-hill". The village gives its name to the hundred of Bosmere-and-Claydon, one of the 21 administrative districts into which Suffolk was divided for administrative purposes between Saxon and Victorian times. Geography The countryside around Claydon is set among low-lying hills and lies next to the River Gipping. It is close to the intersection of the A14 and the B1113. Between the A14 and the B1113 (former A45) is the Ipswich to Ely Line. Amenities The village has two pubs: The Crown and The Greyhound. There is also a bakers and sandwich bar Freshfills, post office, fish and chip shop, hotel, hairdressers, car dealership and travel agency. It also has a primary school and Claydon High School. There are regular bus connections to Ipswich, Bramford and Stowmarket from the centre of the village. At the top of the hill on Church Lane can be found the Church of St Peter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akenham
Akenham is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in the East of England. Located on the north-western edge of Ipswich, in 2005 it had an estimated population of 60. At the 2011 Census the population remained less than 100 and was included in the civil parish of Whitton. History Archaeological finds A number of archaeological items have been found in Akenham including metal fragments from the Bronze Age and Iron Age, a Saxon coin and Bronze disc. Romano-British pottery has been unearthed in fields across the parish. A Middle Saxon gilded bronze pendant or brooch has also been found. A silver penny of the Saxon king Æthelred the Unready was also found nearby as well as bronze fragments thought to represent the Bigod family. Middle Ages Its place name is derived the Old English for 'Ac(c)a's homestead or village'. It was known as Acheham in the Domesday Book which records the population in 1086 to be 50 households made up 48 freemen and 2 smallho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westerfield
Westerfield is a village in Suffolk, England. It lies about two miles north of the centre of Ipswich in the East Suffolk District, and is served by Westerfield railway station on the Ipswich–Lowestoft East Suffolk Line. Amenities Westerfield has two public houses, ''The Swan'' in northern Westerfield and ''The Westerfield Railway'' in the south. Both serve meals and contribute much to local social activity. Central Westerfield has a village green adjacent to the medieval parish Church of St Mary Magdalene, where the East Anglian cleric and Hebrew scholar Cyprian Thomas Rust (1808–1895) is among those buried. It has fine stained glass windows, of which ''St Mary of Magdala'' was designed by William Morris William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, artist, writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditiona .... Population The p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basil Brown
Basil John Wait Brown (22 January 1888 – 12 March 1977) was an English archaeologist and astronomer. Self-taught, he discovered and excavated a 6th-century Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in 1939, which has come to be called "one of the most important archaeological discoveries of all time". Although Brown was described as an amateur archaeologist, his career as a paid excavation employee for a provincial museum spanned more than thirty years. Early life Basil Brown was born in 1888 in Bucklesham, east of Ipswich, to George Brown (1863–1932) and Charlotte Wait (c.1854–1931), daughter of John Wait of Great Barrington, Gloucestershire. His father was a farmer, wheelwright and agent for the Royal Insurance Company. Soon after his birth, the Browns moved to Church Farm near Rickinghall, where his father began work as a tenant farmer. From the age of five Basil studied astronomical texts that he had inherited from his grandfather. He later attended Rickinghall Sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time Team
''Time Team'' is a British television programme that originally aired on Channel 4, Channel 4 from 16 January 1994 to 7 September 2014. It returned in 2022 on online platforms YouTube and Patreon. Created by television producer Tim Taylor (producer), Tim Taylor and presented by actor Tony Robinson, each episode features a team of specialists carrying out an archaeology, archaeological Excavation (archaeology), dig over a period of three days, with Robinson explaining the process in lay terms. The specialists changed throughout the programme's run, although it consistently included professional archaeologists such as Mick Aston, Carenza Lewis, Francis Pryor and Phil Harding (archaeologist), Phil Harding. The sites excavated ranged in date from the Palaeolithic to the Second World War. In October 2012, Channel 4 announced that the final series would be broadcast in 2013. Series 20 was screened from January–March 2013 and nine Time Team (spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ipswich Museum
Ipswich Museum is a registered museum of culture, history and natural heritage, located in a Grade II* listed building on High Street in Ipswich, the county town of Suffolk. It was historically the leading regional museum in Suffolk, housing collections drawn from both the former counties of East Suffolk and West Suffolk, which were amalgamated in 1974. The original foundation of 1846, devoted primarily to Natural History, was moved to new premises in High Street in 1881. In about 1895 Christchurch Mansion, a large 16th-century house near the town centre in Christchurch Park, was given to the town. It was developed as a second venue under the same management and curatorship, devoted particularly to fine and decorative arts. Both are parts of one institution and draw on the same central core of collections. The entire service was merged with that of Colchester (Essex) on 1 April 2007 to form Colchester + Ipswich Museums. It is one of Ipswich's main features. The museum closed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castle Hill, Ipswich, Suffolk
Castle Hill is a suburb of the town of Ipswich, partly in the ward of Castle Hill, in the Ipswich district, in the county of Suffolk, England. It is the site of the Castle Hill Roman villa The Castle Hill Roman villa has been described as "the largest and most sophisticated villa complex known in Suffolk". Under what is now housing in Tranmere Grove and Chesterfield Drive in the old village of Whitton (now a suburb of Ipswich) lies .... This area has for centuries been called Castle Hill but there never was a castle. Castlehill Farm stood just yards away prior to the housing scheme. Amenities Castle Hill has a primary and secondary school, a post office, a pub, two churches and an arcade of shops on both Fircroft Road and Garrick Way. Castle Hill United Reformed Church was completed in 1956. References *Philip's Street Atlas Suffolk (page 135) Ipswich Districts {{Suffolk-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
