Pettaugh

Pettaugh
St Catherine, Pettaugh
Pettaugh Pettaugh shown within Suffolk
District	Mid Suffolk
Shire county	Suffolk
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Postcode district	IP
Dialling code	01473
EU Parliament	East of England
UK Parliament	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
List of places UK England Suffolk

Coordinates: 52°11′28″N 1°10′01″E / 52.191°N 1.167°E / 52.191; 1.167

Pettaugh is a village and civil parish located within the district council area of Mid Suffolk, England.^[1]

It is a small village of a little over 200 inhabitants in 85 households, 10 miles north of Ipswich and 2½ miles south of Debenham, in the county of Suffolk. It is in a rural location surrounded by farmland, at the junction of the A1120 (Stowmarket to Yoxford) and the Coddenham to Debenham roads.

An aerial view of Pettaugh shows a few houses surrounded on all sides by a patchwork of farm fields. Years ago the fields may have been smaller, with lots more hedges, but farm fields surrounding the village is probably the way it's been for a very long time. The village sign reflects this—it features a farmer with his horse-drawn plough, working the farmland around Pettaugh, an Anvil, indicating the existence of a blacksmith in the village, essential to farming in the days of horse-drawn ploughs, and the wind mill which stood at the centre of the village. Thus are the main occupations of Pettaugh residents of 'yesteryear' represented—farming, smithing and milling the grain, mostly working very close to home. Today, residents of Pettaugh commute to nearby towns to work—to Debenham, Ipswich, Bury St Edmunds—even by train to London; very few earn a living in or near to the village. Even the children catch buses or are driven by parents to schools in Stonham Aspal, Debenham, Helmingham, etc. Occupations may have changed but Pettaugh thrives, at the heart of beautiful Suffolk countryside.

The mediaeval parish church of St Catherine was renovated in 1861 and is a grade II* listed building.^[2]

References

↑ "Pettaugh, Suffolk Community Guide". Retrieved 11 April 2008.
↑ "Name: CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE List entry Number: 1182764". English Heritage. Retrieved 14 April 2014.

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St Catherine Church, located in Pettaugh.

Ceremonial county of Suffolk

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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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