Ingham is a village and

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in the

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district of

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in eastern England, located about six miles north of

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on the A143 to

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. The village boasts a single church, post office and a pub, the Cadogan Arms which was refurbished in 2006. Ingham is mentioned in the

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of 1086. Possible

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are "homestead or village of a man called Inga" or "home of the Inguiones" (an ancient Germanic tribe). The Church is dedicated to St. Bartholomew and is

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. The post office provides some local library links. The village school was a one-room school serving the small class of all grades. It closed in the mid 1980s as a result of declining numbers, despite the expansion of the village with the new housing estate in the 1960s and 1970s. Locals are mainly employed in Bury St Edmunds or Thetford, commuting to work, though some work locally in agriculture or transport industries. Situated on a slight rise north of Bury St Edmunds the village has a large green, formerly including school playing fields to the east of the main road reached by a lane between the Church and the Post Office. Beyond the green lies the abandoned railway cutting - the line and

Ingham railway station Ingham railway station was a railway station in Ingham, Suffolk which was located was on the route between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. History The railway line between Bury St Edmunds and Thetford was proposed by the Bury St Edmunds and T ...

closed in the 1950s, though Ingham is still served by buses.

Thetford Forest Thetford Forest is the largest lowland pine forest in Britain and is located in a region straddling the north of Suffolk and the south of Norfolk in England. It covers over in the form of a Site of Special Scientific Interest A S ...

lies a few miles to the north west.

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