Butley 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 the English county of

Suffolk Suffolk ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Norfolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Essex to the south, and Cambridgeshire to the west. Ipswich is the largest settlement and the county ...

. Butley lies east of the town of Woodbridge on the B1084 ( Orford) road. Administratively, Butley forms part of the East Suffolk district; from 1934 to 1974 it had been part of the former

Deben Rural District Deben Rural District was a rural district in the county of East Suffolk, England. It was created in 1934 by the merger of parts of the disbanded Bosmere and Claydon Rural District, the disbanded Plomesgate Rural District and the disbanded Woo ...

, and then from 1974 to 2019 it had been part of the former

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History

Butle was formerly an exclave of

Loes Hundred Loes was a hundred (subdivision), hundred of Suffolk, with an area of . Loes Hundred was long and thin in shape, around long and between 2 and wide. It followed the course of the River Deben from Cretingham to Ufford where it crossed Wilford (h ...

, one of the Hundreds of Suffolk. The parish church of St John the Baptist dates from the 12th century, but was much restored in 1868. It is a grade II* listed building.

Butley Priory

Butley Priory was a religious institution established founded in 1171 by Ranulph de Glanvill. At that time nearby Orford was a major town. It was suppressed in 1538 during the dissolution of the monasteries.

References

External links

Some illustrated information, mainly about the parish churchPictures of Butley on geograph.org.uk
Villages in Suffolk Civil parishes in Suffolk {{Suffolk-geo-stub