Elmswell
| Elmswell | |
|---|---|
 Elmswell Methodist Church | |
  Elmswell Location withinSuffolk | |
| Population | 3,950 (2011)[1] |
| Civil parish |
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| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Bury St Edmunds |
| Postcode district | IP30 |
| Dialling code | 01359, 01284 |
| Police | Suffolk |
| Fire | Suffolk |
| Ambulance | East of England |
| UK Parliament | |
Elmswellis a village andcivil parishin the county ofSuffolk,England.[2]It is situated halfway betweenBury St. EdmundsandStowmarketand lies just to the north of theA14 road.
The history of the village can be traced as far back as the Roman times based on a site containing a pottery kiln dated around the third century.
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names the origin of Elmswell or in itsOld Englishform Elmswella, as referred to in theDomesday Bookof 1086 comes from 'Spring or Stream where elm-trees grow. The place name Elmswella is formed by the conjunction of elm + wella, where wella isOld Englishfor stream.
A huge village green – Butten Haugh Green – once formed the centre of Elmswell. However, the arrival of the railway in 1846 and the bacon factory in 1911, meant the green now has houses built on it.
The 1881 census showed that the number of dwellings in the village was 196 and the population was 761.
Present Elmswell
[edit]The village was struck byan F1/T2 tornadoon 23 November 1981, as part of the record-breaking nationwide tornado outbreak on that day.[3]
Currently, the number of houses is over 2000 and the number of inhabitants is over 4750.
The Church of St John the Divine in Church Hill was mentioned in theDomesday Book.SirRobert Gardiner,formerLord Chief Justice of Ireland,the lord of the manor, who died in 1620, builtalmshousesnext to the church and left them to three women from Elmswell and three from the nearby village ofNorton.He is buried in St John the Divine.
The village has had arailway stationsince 1846, on the line betweenBury St EdmundsandIpswich.There is a wildlife area at Kiln Meadow, and two pubs – The Tavern and The Fox - exist in the village.
Elmswell was named Suffolk's village of the year in 2008 beating Cockfield and Fressingfield into second and third place respectively.
References
[edit]- ^"Civil Parish population 2011".Neighbourhood Statistics.Office for National Statistics.Retrieved20 August2016.
- ^OS Explorer map 211: Bury St.Edmunds and Stowmarket Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – Southampton A2 edition. Publishing Date:2008.ISBN978 0319240519
- ^"European Severe Weather Database".eswd.eu.
External links
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Media related toElmswellat Wikimedia Commons- Official Elmswell Parish Site
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