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73 unusual facts about Suffolk


Alfred Edgar Wigg

His father, Edgar Smith Wigg (7 June 1818 – 15 October 1899) of Tunstall, Suffolk came to South Australia in May 1810, and founded the successful E.

Aspall

Aspall, Suffolk, a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England

Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad

It featured an innovative and durable roadbed through a portion of the Great Dismal Swamp and an arrow-straight 52-mile tangent between Suffolk and Petersburg.

Babergh Hundred

It consisted of the land to the north, east and south east of Sudbury, the hundred's largest town, and its southern boundary forms the border with Essex.

Ballingdon

It is the only part of the town to the south of the River Stour.

Barking Hall

Barking Hall is a lost country house in Suffolk, England.

Blair Hughes-Stanton

He died in 1981, and his ashes were scattered on the River Stour, Suffolk by his two friends from the local pub, Peter and Joe.

Boxted

Boxted, Suffolk, a village and civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk, England

Bures, England

The parishes lie on opposite sides of the River Stour, which is the county boundary between Essex and Suffolk.

Bytham River

A concentration of Lower Palaeolithic occupation sites dating to before the Anglian glaciation is known along the river's route including Waverley Wood near Coventry and High Lodge, West Dereham, Feltwell, Brandon, Hengrave, Lakenheath and Warren Hill in East Anglia.

Camargue horse

In England, the only breeding herd is at Valley Farm, in Wickham Market, near Woodbridge, Suffolk.

Carlford Hundred

The southern part of the hundred running from the bounds of Ipswich to Woodbridge and the River Deben has generally a light sandy soil, whereas in its northern parts a rich loam prevails.

Charles Schreiber

Schreiber was born at Colchester, the eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel James Alfred Schreiber of Melton, Suffolk and his wife Mary Ware, daughter of Thomas Ware, of Woodfort, County Cork.

Christophe Clement

In the US, Christophe studied under Hall Of Fame conditioner Shug McGaughey before returning to Europe to work as assistant to trainer Luca Cumani in Newmarket, England.

Duke of Grafton

The traditional burial place of the Dukes of Grafton is the parish church of Saint Genevieve in Euston, Suffolk.

Edgar Smith Wigg

Originally from Tunstall, Suffolk, he commenced work as a bank clerk and developed a book club for the benefit of his fellow workers.

Felix of Burgundy

Other historians have suggested as an alternative site for Felix's see the coastal Walton, Suffolk near Felixstowe, where there was once a Roman fort.

Foxhall

Foxhall, Suffolk, a civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal district of Suffolk, England, UK

Garry Hart, Baron Hart of Chilton

He was created a life peer on 4 June 2004 taking the title Baron Hart of Chilton, of Chilton in the County of Suffolk.

Gelasian

During the Gelasian the Red Crag of Butley and Newbourn and the Norwich and Weybourne Crags, all from East Anglia (England) were deposited.

Global spread of H5N1 in 2007

February 3, 2007: In late January 2007 there was an outbreak of avian influenza, caused by H5N1, at one of Bernard Matthews' farms in Holton in Suffolk.

Godolphin Stables

Godolphin Stables, also known as Stanley House stables, is a thoroughbred racehorse ownership, training and breeding operation in Newmarket, Suffolk, which has produced many notable horses.

Great Bradley

There is evidence that people have lived in and around Great Bradley by the River Stour since the middle stone age over 5,000 years ago.

Hartismere Hundred

Hartismere also gives its name to the 11-19 Co-educational Foundation School based in Eye.

Henry Cave-Browne-Cave

On 17 January 1939, when flying out of RAF Eastchurch, Cave-Browne-Cave was seriously injured in a flying accident which occurred at Butley in Suffolk.

HM Prison Highpoint North

HM Prison Highpoint North (formerly called Highpoint Prison and Edmunds Hill Prison) is a Category C men's prison, located in the village of Stradishall (near Newmarket) in Suffolk, England.

Holy Jesus Hospital

The Order spread to France and then to England after being invited by Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, to found Clare Priory in Suffolk, by the River Stour.

Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes

In 1910, Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes dismantled a large timber framed house, formerly the Queens Head, located next to what is now the A140 Ipswich to Norwich route in Thwaite, Suffolk, UK.

James Rivington

Rivington was one of the sons of the bookseller and publisher Charles Rivington and inherited a share of his father's business, which he lost at the Newmarket races.

John de Bothby

He was still living in 1382 when he was asked to inquire into whether lands held by the Priory of Walton had been unlawfully acquired.

John Howe, 4th Baron Chedworth

His mother was Frances, daughter of Thomas White of Tattingstone, near Ipswich, Suffolk.

John Wrawe

On 12 June, Wrawe attacked Sir Richard Lyons' property at Overhall, advancing on to the towns of Cavendish and Bury St Edmunds in west Suffolk the next day, gathering further support as they went.

Joint Services School for Linguists

Student accommodation subsequently moved to Newmarket, near Cambridge, and from where students were bussed daily into Cambridge while they studied at the University.

Kelsale cum Carlton

Carlton is immediately north of Saxmundham and is the location for all the larger businesses based at the Carlton Park Industrial Estate.

Loes Hundred

The town and port of Woodbridge fell within the hundred but was detached from the main part by about three miles (5 km).

London Basin

The north eastern part of the basin is now drained to the North Sea by rivers including the Crouch, Blackwater, Stour and Orwell.

Maggie Hemingway

She was born in Orford, Suffolk and named Margaret Joan Hemingway; but when she was three years old her family moved to New Zealand, where she spent her childhood.

Matthew Pyke

Matthew Pyke of Stowmarket, Suffolk was a British student who had resided in Nottingham since 2006 with his girlfriend Joanna Witton.

Mettingham Castle

The castle remained in Sir John's family until 1394, when it was given to a college of secular canons from nearby Norton, who established themselves on the small moated court within the castle.

Milden Castle

Milden Castle was a motte-and-bailey castle on Foxburrow hill in Milden, a village in Suffolk, England.

Nayland-with-Wissington

The Nayland-with-Wissington parish comprises Nayland village and the adjoining rural village of Wissington (these days usually referred to as 'Wiston' by local residents (Knox, 2001) ).

Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad

He is also responsible for engineering and building the famous 52 mile-long tangent track between Suffolk and Petersburg which is also part of a major artery of modern Norfolk Southern rail traffic.

Pennyhole Bay

Pennyhole Bay is a stretch of water situated to the south of the ports of Harwich in Essex and Felixstowe in Suffolk, England where the rivers Stour and Orwell flow into the sea and just east of Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex.

Poslingford

Poslingford lies near to a stream that feeds the River Stour (via the Chilton Stream), and the main part of the village follows the line of The Street (the main road through to the village of Stansfield), rising approximately 18m in height above sea level from south to north.

RAF Woodbridge

Royal Air Force Station Woodbridge, (now known as Woodbridge Airfield, MoD Woodbridge and Rock Barracks, informally RAF Woodbridge), situated to the east of Woodbridge in the county of Suffolk, England, is currently the home of the 23 Engineer Regiment (Air Assault) of the British Army.

Reliant

In 2001, production rights for the Reliant Robin were sold to a Sudbury-based firm called B&N Plastics, but production ceased in 2002.

Richard Barwell

In 1781 he bought the estate of Stanstead in Sussex from the trustees of the Earl of Halifax for 102,500 and subsequently added to his possessions in that county.

Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester

Robert apparently went to Flanders, where he raised a large force of mercenaries, and landed at Walton, Suffolk, on 29 September 1173.

Robert Hitcham

He became a Member of Parliament for West Looe, Cornwall from 1597 to 1598; for King's Lynn, Norfolk from 1604 to 1611; for Cambridge in 1614 and for Orford, Suffolk from 1624 to 1626.

Robert Samuel

Robert Samuel was the minister of the parish church of East Bergholt, in the Stour valley, during the reign of King Edward VI, at which time it was permitted for priests to be married, and he dwelt there together with his wife.

Saint-Émile

Saint-Émile-de-Suffolk, Quebec, a municipality in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada

Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad

The circa-1885 Seaboard Passenger Station at Suffolk, Virginia was shared with the coal hauling Virginian Railway when it was built adjacently in the early 20th century.

Snape Branch Line

The Snape was a railway branch line located in Suffolk which served Snape Maltings.

Soham murders

The girls' bodies were found in a ditch near the perimeter fence of RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, about six miles from Soham, on 17 August.

In September 2001, Huntley applied for the position of caretaker at Soham Village College, a secondary school in the small town between Newmarket and Ely.

Stetchworth

Its long western border with Dullingham also follows field boundaries, most of which also follow the course of the Stour Valley Path, a long-distance footpath.

Stoke-by-Clare

Stoke-by-Clare is a small village in Suffolk located in the valley of the River Stour, about two miles west of Clare.

Stow Hundred

It is in the Deanery to which it gives name and was in the Archdeaconry of Sudbury until 1837 when it was added to the Archdeaconry of Suffolk, and is thus still in the Diocese of Norwich.

Stringfellow Barr

Stringfellow Barr (January 15, 1897, Suffolk, Virginia – February 3, 1982, Alexandria, Virginia) was an historian, author, and former president of St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where he, together with Scott Buchanan, instituted the Great Books curriculum.

Sue Ryder

Ryder was made a life peer in 1979, being created Baroness Ryder of Warsaw, of Warsaw in Poland and of Cavendish in the County of Suffolk.

At first Cavendish, Suffolk, was established by her following her relief work in Europe after the Second World War, as a home for concentration camp survivors and later to provide nursing care for the elderly and disabled.

Suffolk New Academy

Suffolk New Academy (formerly Chantry High School) is a secondary school with academy status in the Chantry area of Ipswich in the English county of Suffolk.

Suffolk, Virginia

Other large employers in the City of Suffolk include Unilever, Lipton Tea, Wal-Mart, Target, QVC, and two major modeling and simulation companies, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon.

The Brome play of Abraham and Isaac

The text of the play was lost until the 19th century, when a manuscript was found in a commonplace book dating from around 1470–80 at Brome Manor, Suffolk, England.

The Hay Wain

The Hay Wain is a painting by John Constable, finished in 1821, which depicts a rural scene on the River Stour between the English counties of Suffolk and Essex.

Thedwastre

It is in the Deanery of Thedwestry, the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, the Diocese of Ely and Liberty of St Edmund.

Thomas Fowle

Thomas Fowle (born ca. 1530, died after 1597) was a Church of England clergyman, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, rector of Redgrave and Hinderclay, Suffolk, and prebendary of Norwich Cathedral.

On 22 July 1563, he was installed as second prebendary of Norwich Cathedral, when it was noted that he lived at Redgrave in Suffolk, where he was both rector of the parish and chaplain to Lord Keeper Sir Nicholas Bacon.

Tregonwell Frampton

He was at the same period a regular attendant at race meetings, kept horses in training, and owned a house at Newmarket, though he passed most of the year in Dorset.

Weeting Castle

Weeting Castle is a 12th-century ruin with a three-story-high tower in Weeting, Norfolk, near Brandon, Suffolk, England.

Wenhaston

Wenhaston is a small village of 818 people (2001) situated to the south of the River Blyth in northeastern Suffolk, England.

William A. Pailes

He was an HC-130 pilot in Air Force Rescue from December 1975 to July 1980 in McClellan Air Force Base, California and Royal Air Force Base, Woodbridge, England.

Wingfield Castle

Wingfield Castle, Wingfield, Suffolk, England was the ancestral home of the Wingfield family and their heirs, the De La Poles, Earls and Dukes of Suffolk, but is now a private house.


Aaron Burr, Sr.

He was of English ancestry (his grandfather Jehu Burr had been born in Lavenham, Suffolk, England, in 1625, settled in the Connecticut Colony as a young man, and died there in 1692).

Alde Valley School

Alde Valley School is a comprehensive school in Leiston in the English county of Suffolk.

Art Cooley

In the spring of 1966, Cooley was among the BTNRC activists who testified in favor of a class action lawsuit filed by Patchogue attorney Victor Yannacone against the Suffolk County Mosquito Control Commission, seeking to force the commission to stop using the insecticide dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) in the local salt marshes.

Augustin Heckel

His colour engraving of The Countess of Suffolk's House (1749) is held at Marble Hill House, Twickenham, London.

Bacton and Old Newton Ward

The candidate information for the Bacton and Old Newton Ward in Mid-Suffolk, Suffolk, England.

Beech House

Beech House Stud, an English Thoroughbred racehorse breeding farm near Newmarket, Suffolk

Bishop of Northampton

The Eastern District consisted of the counties of Cambridgeshire (with the Isle of Ely), Huntingdonshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Rutland, and Suffolk, all from the former Midland District, and the counties of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire from the London District.

Broadcloth

Around 1500, broadcloth was made in a number of districts of England, including Essex and Suffolk in southern East Anglia, the West Country Clothing District (Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, east Somerset - sometimes with adjacent areas), at Worcester, Coventry, Cranbrook in Kent and some other places.

Butley

Butley River, a tributary of the River Ore in Suffolk, England

Day Joyce Sheet

Day Joyce was born Miss Daisy Mary Sage on 12 November 1905 in Yoxford, Suffolk.

Ernest Seaman

Ernie is commemorated at Tyne Cot Cemetery (Panel No. 70), the memorial to the 36th Division at the Ulster Tower near Thiepval on the Somme, Felixstowe War Memorial (Suffolk), and the Scole War Memorial (Norfolk).

Farmers Guide

With the 2007 Power in Action, which took place at Melford Park Farm, Alpheton, Suffolk, in September 2007, the event entered a new phase its history.

Francis Hindes Groome

Francis Hindes Groome (30 August 1851 in Monk Soham, Suffolk - 24 January 1902 in London), miscellaneous writer, son of Robert Hindes Groome Archdeacon of Suffolk, wrote for various encyclopaedias, etc.

Francis Negus

He represented Ipswich in parliament from 1717 until his death, at his seat at Dallinghoo, Suffolk, on 9 September 1732.

Frederik Klokker

He was released by Derbyshire following the 2009 season, but continued to feature in Minor counties cricket with Suffolk, making five Minor Counties Championship and four MCCA Knockout Trophy appearances.

Gayer-Anderson Museum

Gayer-Anderson died in England in 1945, and is buried in Lavenham, Suffolk.

Hanserd Knollys

On 17 Jan. 1649 parliament gave a commission to him and William Kiffin to preach in Suffolk, on petition from inhabitants of Ipswich.

Herbert Thorndike

He was the third son of Francis Thorndike, a Lincolnshire gentleman of good family, and Alice, his wife, daughter of Edward Colman, of a family resident at Burnt Ely Hale, and at Waldingfield in Suffolk.

Ipswich Castle

By the 12th century the Bigod family had come to dominate Suffolk, holding the title of the Earl of Norfolk and owning the four major castles of Framlingham, Bungay, Walton and Thetford.

Jeremy Wade

Wade's interest in fishing began when he was a child living in East Anglia, on the banks of the Suffolk Stour.

John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk

His senior descendants, the Dukes of Norfolk, have been Earls Marshal and Premier Peers of England since the 17th century, and male-line descendants hold the Earldoms of Carlisle, Suffolk, Berkshire and Effingham.

Lake Grove, New York

Lake Grove is a popular commercial area in Suffolk County, including stores and attractions such as the Smith Haven Mall, Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, and other large chain stores including DSW.

Long Island Lighting Company

The Long Island Lighting Company, or LILCO "lil-co" , was an electrical power company and natural gas utility for the communities of Long Island, New York, serving 2.7 million people in Nassau, Suffolk and Queens Counties.

Lothingland Rural District

The district was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, and split between the new districts of borough of Great Yarmouth (in Norfolk) and the district of Waveney, in Suffolk.

Michael Blount

He succeeded Sir Owen Hopton of Cockfield Hall in Suffolk as Lieutenant of the Tower of London in 1590 and held the post for five years until 1595, in December of which year he was briefly imprisoned in the Tower himself.

Mother Mary More

Sir Thomas Gage, 6th Baronet, also a recusant, offered them the use of Hengrave Hall near Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk where they stayed until 1802, when they returned to Bruges.

Pillar of salt

The Pillar of Salt road sign near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, England, thought to be the first internally illuminated road sign in the country

Politics of Long Island

In 1972, Richard Nixon won Nassau, Suffolk and Queens and came within 14,000 votes of winning heavily Democratic Brooklyn.

Ralph de Gael

Ralph de Gael (otherwise Ralph de Guader, Radulf Waders or Ralph Wader) (before 1042 – c. 1096) was the Earl of East Anglia (Norfolk and Suffolk) and Lord of Gaël and Montfort (Seigneur de Gaël et Montfort).

Rickinghall and Walsham Ward

The candidate information for the Rickinghall and Walsham Ward in Mid-Suffolk, Suffolk, England.

Robert Rochester

According to Hughes, by 1542 Rochester had been appointed receiver to John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford, and was also appointed bailiff of the Earl's manor of Lavenham in Suffolk.

Ryan Kurtzer

Ryan Kurtzer, born in Suffolk, England, is an International Baseball player who plays for the Great Britain national baseball team.

Sapiston

This sleepy part of Suffolk proved to be an ideal filming location for the 1970s British TV show Dad's Army.

Sibton Abbey

John Scrivener's sister Elizabeth was married to Harbottle Wingfield of Crowfield Hall, Suffolk, cousin of Edward Maria Wingfield, the first President of the Jamestown Colony.

Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet

In 1883 he won a Silver medal at the Smithfield Show as breeder of the best "Single Pig" in class LXXXVI; he lived at Wickham Market in Suffolk at the time.

Stackton Tressel

Stackton Tressel (or simply Stackton) was said to be in Suffolk though location filming for the TV Series of Dear Ladies took place in the Cheshire towns and villages of Knutsford, Great Budworth and Nantwich.

Stansted Transit

Stansted Transit operated 22 bus routes, in Essex and on the Hertfordshire, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire borders, as well as many school bus contracts tendered by Essex County Council.

Suffolk County Jail

Charles Street Jail, also known as the Suffolk County Jail, an 1851 era church in Boston

Thomas Spring of Lavenham

Spring played a large part in defeating supporters of William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, who claimed the throne from Henry VII.