Shadingfield
Shadingfield St John the Baptist
Shadingfield is located in Suffolk
Shadingfield
Shadingfield
Location within Suffolk
Area6 km2 (2.3 sq mi) [1]
Population178 (2011)[1]
• Density30/km2 (78/sq mi)
OS grid referenceTM435838
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBeccles
Postcode districtNR34
Dialling code01502
UK Parliament
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UK
England
Suffolk
52°23′53″N 1°34′44″E / 52.398°N 1.579°E / 52.398; 1.579

Shadingfield is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of the English county of Suffolk. It is located around 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Beccles in the north of the county.

The village is spread along a 1+1⁄4 miles (2.0 km) stretch of the A145 road between Beccles and Blythburgh to the south.[2] The Ipswich to Lowestoft railway line runs through the west of the parish, with the nearest stations at Brampton and Beccles railway stations.[1]

The village itself is joined with Willingham St Mary and 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) 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.[1]

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,[a][1][4] and significantly from a 1981 population of 103.[2] Some houses in Redisham village are within the Shadingfield parish area.[1]

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.[2][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

  1. ^ 2011 United Kingdom census population data from the Office for National Statistics used a 'best-fit' method and, as a result, does not necessarily map exactly to parish boundaries.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Village profile: Shadingfield, East Suffolk District Council, 2019. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
  2. ^ a b c Shadingfield, Suffolk Heritage Explorer, Suffolk County Council. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
  3. ^ Shadingfield, Sotterley, Willingham and Ellough Parish Council Website, 2021. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  4. ^ Estimates of Total Population of Areas in Suffolk, Suffolk County Council, 2007-05-01. Retrieved 2009-04-19. (Archived, 2008-12-19.)
  5. ^ Shadingfield, Sotterley, Willingham & Ellough, Healthy Suffolk, 2016. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  6. ^ Willingham St Mary, Suffolk Pubs, Suffolk Campaign for Real Ale. Retrieved 2011-06-23.
  7. ^ Waveney Local Plan, Waveney District Council, adopted 2019, published by East Suffolk District Council, 2019, pp.191–192. Retrieved 2020-02-10.
  8. ^ Knott S (2016) St John the Baptist, Shadingfield, Suffolk Churches. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  9. ^ Shadingfield Hall, Historic England. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
  10. ^ PM appeared to be having lovely holiday, Lowestoft Journal, 2010-03-03. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
  11. ^ Barnes J (2010) Suffolk: Gordon Brown’s bleak break at Shadingfield, East Anglian Daily Times, 2010-12-14. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
  12. ^ 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.

External links

Media related to Shadingfield at Wikimedia Commons


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