Mettingham
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Mettingham is a village and civil parish in the north of the English county of Suffolk. It is Script error: No such module "convert". east of the market town of Bungay in the East Suffolk district. It had a population of 211 at the 2011 United Kingdom census.[1]
The northern boundary of the parish is formed by the River Waveney which marks the county boundary with Norfolk. The northern section of the parish is within the area of The Broads National Park. The parish borders the parishes of Bungay, Shipmeadow, Ilketshall St John and the Norfolk parishes of Broome and Ellingham. The B1062 Bungay to Beccles road runs through the centre of the parish.[2]
In the 1870s, Mettingham was described as:
- "a village and a parish in Wangford district, Suffolk. The village stands near the river Waveney, at the boundary with Norfolk, 2 miles E of Bungay r. station; is a scattered place; and has a postoffice under Bungay."[3]
Its church, All Saints, is a round-tower church and about a mile to the south, Mettingham Castle comprises the ruins of a moated medieval fortified manor house, with a medieval monastic college, Mettingham College, in its grounds.[4] The college was relocated to the site in 1394 and was dissolved in 1542 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
All Saints Church
All Saints is one of around 40 round-tower churches in Suffolk.Template:Efn[5] It is a Grade I listed building which was restored in 1898.[6] In 2012, the church was threatened with closure due to the theft of £16,000 worth of lead from its roof: there was insufficient money for repairs on top of daily running costs.[7] The money was raised to replace the lead, but in October 2014, a further section of lead was taken. A cheaper material was used to fix the roof to avoid a recurrence.[8]
Transport
The B1062 road runs through the centre of the parish. Mettingham has very limited public transport with a daily bus service. The closest railway station is Beccles, Script error: No such module "convert". to the east.
Notes
References
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- ↑ Mettingham, Healthy Suffolk, 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
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- ↑ Wood R (17 February 2012) All Saints Church Mettingham Facing Closure due to Lead Theft, Eastern Daily Press. Retrieved 23 February 2015
- ↑ Hirst A (7 October 2014) Mettingham: Vicar ‘sickened’ by repeated lead theft from All Saints Church says he will no longer replace like for like only to be targeted again, East Anglian Daily Times. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
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