Shadingfield
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Shadingfield is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of the English county of Suffolk. It is located around Script error: No such module "convert". south of Beccles in the north of the county.
The village is spread along a Script error: No such module "convert". stretch of the A145 road between Beccles and Blythburgh to the south.[1] The Ipswich to Lowestoft railway line runs through the west of the parish, with the nearest stations at Brampton and Beccles railway stations.[2]
The village itself is joined with Willingham St Mary and Script error: No such module "convert". west of Sotterley. The parish council operates to administer jointly the parishes of Shadingfield, Willingham, Sotterley and Ellough.[3] Other than Willingham and Sotterley, the parish also borders Brampton with Stoven, Redisham and Weston.[2]
At the 2011 United Kingdom census the population of the parish was 178. This had risen slightly from a mid-2005 population estimate of 170,Template:Efn[2][4] and significantly from a 1981 population of 103.[1] Some houses in Redisham village are within the Shadingfield parish area.[2]
Culture and community
Shadingfield and Willingham share the limited amenities in the village, with the village hall, playground area and a pub, the Shadingfield Fox, all on the parish boundary.[5][6][7] Children attend a primary school in Brampton and the Sir John Leman High School in Beccles. The local church, alongside the A145, is dedicated to St John the Baptist.[8]
Shadingfield Hall is a Grade II listed Georgian house. It was built between 1806 and 1808 for Thomas Charles Scott, replacing a mid 16th-century manor house. Scott's son, the Reverend T C Scott was Rector of Shadingfield until 1897.[1][9] The house is now on the Sotterley estate. Then Prime Minister Gordon Brown took his family holiday at Shadingfield Hall in the summer of 2008.[10][11][12]
Notes
References
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- ↑ a b c Shadingfield, Suffolk Heritage Explorer, Suffolk County Council. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
- ↑ a b c d Cite error: Script error: No such module "Namespace detect".Script error: No such module "Namespace detect".
- ↑ Shadingfield, Sotterley, Willingham and Ellough Parish Council Website, 2021. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
- ↑ Estimates of Total Population of Areas in Suffolk, Suffolk County Council, 2007-05-01. Retrieved 2009-04-19. (Archived, 2008-12-19.)
- ↑ Shadingfield, Sotterley, Willingham & Ellough, Healthy Suffolk, 2016. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
- ↑ Willingham St Mary, Suffolk Pubs, Suffolk Campaign for Real Ale. Retrieved 2011-06-23.
- ↑ Waveney Local Plan, Waveney District Council, adopted 2019, published by East Suffolk District Council, 2019, pp.191–192. Retrieved 2020-02-10.
- ↑ Knott S (2016) St John the Baptist, Shadingfield, Suffolk Churches. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
- ↑ Shadingfield Hall, Historic England. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
- ↑ PM appeared to be having lovely holiday, Lowestoft Journal, 2010-03-03. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
- ↑ Barnes J (2010) Suffolk: Gordon Brown’s bleak break at Shadingfield, East Anglian Daily Times, 2010-12-14. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
- ↑ Rimmer J (2019) Yours for a cool £1.8m - former holiday home of Gordon Brown near Suffolk coast, East Anglian Daily Times, 2019-02-24. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
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