Walsham-le-Willows

Signpost of Walsham-le-Willows
Walsham-le-Willows
Walsham-le-Willows
 Walsham-le-Willows shown within Suffolk
OS grid referenceTM004713
DistrictMid Suffolk
Shire countySuffolk
RegionEast
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
EU Parliament East of England
List of places
UK
England
Suffolk

Coordinates: 52°18′11″N 0°56′17″E / 52.303°N 0.938°E / 52.303; 0.938

Walsham-le-Willows is a village in Suffolk, England, located around 2½ miles (4 km) south-east of Stanton, and lies in the Mid Suffolk council district. Queen Elizabeth I had granted Walsham-le-Willows to Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, in 1559.

Because the village is documented unusually fully in surviving records of the time, the Cambridge historian John Hatcher chose to use it as the setting for his semi-fictionalised account of the effects of the mid-14th century plague epidemic in England, The Black Death: A Personal History (2008).[1]

Sport & leisure

Walsham-le-Willows has a Non-League football club Walsham-le-Willows F.C. currently in the Eastern Counties League who play at Sumner Road.

Sources

References

  1. Hatcher, John (2008). The Black Death: A Personal History. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo. p. 1. ISBN 0-306-81571-0.

External links

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