The history of a small Suffolk village
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It’s the last day of the 2025 A to Z Blogging Challenge! Well – except for the post-challenge reflection, that is. And it’s another tricky letter – Z… I had planned to write about a World War 2 bombing raid which dropped bombs near Sudbourne, but on further investigation I discovered that the enemy planes… Continue reading Zeppelin and Red Poll cattle
My entry for the letter Y in the A to Z blogging challenge isn’t so much of a blog, more a sharing of links of some of my favourite Sudbourne and/or Suffolk YouTube videos and creators. A picture paints a thousand words, and a video paints even more than that. So why not grab a… Continue reading YouTube
I think most people who participate in the A to Z blogging challenge find X one of the most difficult letters to title a post with – but I knew immediately what my topic would be for this challenging letter! My very brief contribution to the letter X is this newspaper clipping from 1874: ‘Situations… Continue reading XY – Situations Wanted
Today’s A to Z alphabet blogging challenge letter is V. As I’m using the A to Z alphabet challenge to introduce my one-place study of Sudbourne to a wider audience, I thought I’d take a quick look at Sudbourne’s contiguous parishes – the parishes with which it shares a boundary. Sudbourne is bordered by Orford,… Continue reading Villages nearby
Today’s letter in the A-Z blogging challenge is U. This post is about the celebration of a union – the silver wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Arthur Heywood, of Sudbourne Hall. The following newspaper report comes from Ipswich Journal – Thursday 12 July 1888: SILVER WEDDING CELEBRATIONAT SUDBOURNE HALL. On Monday, being the occasion of the… Continue reading Union
On 20th December 1870, a group of men from the Sudbourne and Orford area submitted an application for assistance to the Lords of the Committee of the Council of Education for building Sudbourne School. The men were: Francis Hugh George Seymour, the 4th Marquis of Hertford, Sudbourne HallJohn Maynard, clerk, OrfordWilliam Toller, Farmer, Gedgrave, OrfordWilliam… Continue reading The building of…
Can you think of any regional or Suffolk sayings? The examples I’ve given here won’t be unique to Sudbourne but I am sure that Sudbourne residents would have said them. Here are some Suffolk words and phrases which you may not be familiar with, if you’re not from the area: Cupla three – more than… Continue reading Regional words and sayings
Today’s A to Z blogging challenge letter is Q. Not the easiest letter to write about! so I thought I’d sent you a quiz… 1: Which villages adjoin Sudbourne? 2: Sudbourne and the neighbouring village of Iken were evacuated during which major historical event? 3: What is the name of the nature reserve in Sudbourne… Continue reading Quiz
I have compiled these numbers for the population of Sudbourne from FindMyPast, Histpop, and information in the Sudbourne survey of churchyard and monumental inscriptions: 1086 501327 26 tax payers1524 26 tax payers1603 468 adults (includes Orford & Gedgrave)1674 29 households1801 —-/—-/4411811 —-/—-/4361821 —-/—-/5611831 —-/—-/6311841 census 623/623/6231851 census 601/—–/6011861 census…
Today’s letter in the A to Z Alphabet Challenge is ‘O’. So I thought for a bit of fun, I would take a quick look at a man who was described as being Sudbourne’s oldest resident, and his wife, who also lived to a ripe old age. Ipswich Journal – Saturday 10 February 184930th ult.,… Continue reading Oldest resident
