Burstall, Suffolk
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Burstall 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. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
in
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, England. Located around west of
Ipswich Ipswich () is a port town and Borough status in the United Kingdom, 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, ...
, it is part of Babergh district. The parish includes the hamlet (place), hamlet of Burstallhill. Recorded in the Domesday Book as Burgestala / Burghestala. It is in the Belstead Brook Division, Suffolk, Belstead Brook electoral division of Suffolk County Council. The south-western boundary of the parish is delineated by Belstead, Belstead Brook, a tributary of the River Orwell. The A1071 between Ipswich and Hadleigh, Suffolk, Hadleigh crosses Belstead Brook at Burstall Bridge. Burstall Hall is northeast from the village. Mill Farm is to the west and Hill Farm to the east. The village hall built in 1910 in memory of John Cranfield. It is a Mock Tudor building with a recent lottery grant improvements. No alcohol is sold in the hall. The Half Moon public house closed in 1968 and the Post office closed in 2006.


St Mary's Church

The parish church of St Mary is a Grade I listed building. It is largely of the early 14th and 15th centuries, with two Victorian era, Victorian restorations by Frederick Barnes of Ipswich.


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Babergh District Civil parishes in Suffolk Villages in Suffolk {{suffolk-geo-stub