My village isn’t famously interesting like some. It’s a typical Suffolk village that has grown and grown, although it still has a church, primary school, pub, shop and post office, fish and chip shop and a doctors so we are very lucky – and perhaps not so typical after all!.
It has two small meeting places – the little United Reformed Church and the even smaller Old School Room. When enough money has been raised it will have a new Community Hall too and the Scouts are raising money for a new Scout Hall after theirs was condemned.
It also has lots of houses, from the very old……….(which my Great, Great Grandparents would have known when they lived in the village in the second half of the 1800’s)
to the new estate of 28 homes being built at the other end of the village and houses have been built on all small pieces of land. Where once there was a coach company there are houses, where the old village hall was in the 1980’s there are houses, where a big orchard belonging to one of the villages ‘Big Houses’ once was, there are very smart houses with a private road to them.
The very Old Fire Station is a house
As is the Old Telephone Exchange
and the Old Post Office
Eventually – when the housing market improves – another estate will be built on most of this field at my end of the village.
A small piece of overgrown land has just been cleared – I’m guessing whoever owns it is planning on applying for planning permission to build here too
But in the middle of the village is something much older than all the houses . It is known as the Preaching Stone, a glacial erratic, supposedly used in the C15 for outdoor preaching by wandering friars and later by John Wesley.
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