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Suffolk Archives manage the historical archives for the county of Suffolk.These archives include a wide range of historical council and parish records, plus various commercial records, local historic book collections, local historic newspapers and various personal items.
Civil Parish Civil Parish Population 2011 Area (km 2) 2011 Pre 1974 District District; Akenham: Gipping Rural District [70]: Mid Suffolk: Aldeburgh (town) : 2,466 [71]: 9.69 Aldeburgh Municipal Borough [72]
The Suffolk Records Society is a local text publication society founded in 1957 to promote the study and preservation of Suffolk records from the Middle Ages to the present day. [3] The society has published over 80 volumes as of 2015, divided into two book series, [ 4 ] the Charters series for charters of Suffolk, [ 5 ] and the General series.
The parish is believed to be part of the land given by Sigeberht of East Anglia, the ruler of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of East Anglia to Felix of Burgundy during the 7th-century. [4] At the Domesday survey on 1086, both All Saints and St Nicholas were included as part of the area recorded as South Elmham in Wangford Hundred .
The church is also mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 which says that "The church of St. Gregory holds fifty acres of land in free tenure, as the men of the Hundred say, and thirty-six acres of meadow". [2] The mummified head of Archbishop Simon Sudbury, preserved in a niche in the vestry.
The Domesday Survey records a church dedicated to the Holy Cross in the town, and it is thought that St Mary's stands on the site of an earlier Saxon church. The priory was closed in 1536 as a result of the dissolution of the monasteries, St Mary's became a parish church, and a grammar school was established in one of the priory's chapels. [4]
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Redgrave is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England, just south of the River Waveney that here forms the county boundary with Norfolk. The village is about 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (7 km) west of the town of Diss. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 459. [1] Redgrave is in the Rickinghall and Walsham ward of Mid Suffolk District. [2]