Falkenham

St Ethelbert's church

Falkenham is a village and a civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal District, in the English county of Suffolk, near the village of Kirton and the towns of Ipswich and Felixstowe. The Civil Parish population at the 2011 Census was 170.^[1]

Description

The parish contains the hamlets of Falkenham Sink and Lower Falkenham. The parish church is dedicated to St Ethelbert and is a grade II* listed building.^[2] The major A14 road runs nearby.

The Falkenham Marshes are on the River Deben.

History

At the time of the Norman Conquest the manor of Walton was linked with that of Falkenham. The villages only Public House, The Falkenham Dog, closed in 1975/6.^[3]

Location grid

Hemley

Kirton

Felixstowe Ferry

Falkenham

Trimley St Martin

References

↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 18 September 2015.
↑ "Name: CHURCH OF ST ETHELBERT List entry Number: 1030914". English Heritage. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
↑ http://www.suffolkcamra.co.uk/pubs/pub/269

Coordinates: 52°00′N 1°21′E / 52.000°N 1.350°E / 52.000; 1.350

Suffolk Coastal

Towns	Aldeburgh Felixstowe Leiston Orford Saxmundham Woodbridge

Civil parishes	Alderton Aldringham cum Thorpe Badingham Bawdsey Benhall Blaxhall Blythburgh Boulge Boyton Bramfield Brandeston Bredfield Brightwell Bromeswell Bruisyard Bucklesham Burgh Butley Campsea Ashe Capel St Andrew Charsfield Chediston Chillesford Clopton Cookley Cransford Cratfield Cretingham Culpho Dallinghoo Darsham Debach Dennington Dunwich Earl Soham Easton Eyke Falkenham Farnham Foxhall Framlingham Friston Gedgrave Great Bealings Great Glemham Grundisburgh Hacheston Hasketon Hemley Heveningham Hollesley Hoo Huntingfield Iken Kelsale cum Carlton Kesgrave Kettleburgh Kirton Knodishall Letheringham Levington Linstead Magna Linstead Parva Little Bealings Little Glemham Marlesford Martlesham Melton Middleton Monewden Nacton Newbourne Otley Parham Peasenhall Pettistree Playford Purdis Farm Ramsholt Rendham Rendlesham Rushmere St Andrew Saxtead Shottisham Sibton Snape Sternfield Stratford St Andrew Stratton Hall Sudbourne Sutton Sweffling Swilland Theberton Thorington Trimley St Martin Trimley St Mary Tuddenham St Martin Tunstall Ubbeston Ufford Walberswick Waldringfield Walpole Wantisden Wenhaston with Mells Hamlet Westerfield Westleton Wickham Market Witnesham Yoxford

Other settlements	Aldringham Sizewell Thorpeness Walton

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Ceremonial county of Suffolk

Boroughs or districts	Babergh Forest Heath Ipswich Mid Suffolk St Edmundsbury Suffolk Coastal Waveney

Major settlements	Aldeburgh Beccles Brandon Bungay Bury St Edmunds Carlton Colville Clare Eye Felixstowe Framlingham Hadleigh Halesworth Haverhill Kesgrave Leiston Lowestoft Mildenhall Needham Market Newmarket Orford Saxmundham Southwold Stowmarket Sudbury Woodbridge See also: List of civil parishes in Suffolk

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Falkenham

Description

History

Location grid

See also

References