Suffolk
Mid Suffolk District
Great Blakenham

Great Blakenham

Great Blakenham is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of in eastern located near the town of . An energy from waste Centre built by SITA UK was opened in December 2014 on the former site of the Highway Agency's Depot.
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Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: Village with 2,490 residents
  • Description: village in Suffolk, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Great Blakenham, Suffolk”

Places of Interest

Highlights include St Mary’s Church, Great Blakenham and St Mary and St Peter’s Church.

Church
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St Mary's Church is located in the village of Great Blakenham near . It is an active Anglican in the deanery of Bosmere, part of the archdeaconry of Ipswich, and the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.

Church
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St Mary and St Peter's Church is an active Anglican in the village of near . It contains a Henry Moore statue of Madonna and the Child originally held at .

Pub
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is a pub.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Claydon and Baylham.

Village
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is a village just north of in , England. The meaning of the name is "clay-on-the-hill". The village gives its name to the hundred of Bosmere-and-Claydon, one of the 21 administrative districts into which Suffolk was divided for administrative purposes between Saxon and Victorian times.

Hamlet
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is a village and civil parish, 1,349 acres size, in the Mid Suffolk district of , England, about 7 miles northwest of and 6 miles southeast of .

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of in eastern England. Located around two miles north-west of and a mile south-west of its larger sister village Great Blakenham, in 2005 its population was 310.

Great Blakenham

Latitude
52.11431° or 52° 6′ 52″ north
Longitude
1.09362° or 1° 5′ 37″ east
Population
2,490
Elevation
52 feet (16 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB GRB
Open location code
9F43437V+PC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 288273037
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2648157
Wiki­data ID
Q2679924
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Turkish—“Great Blakenham” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Great Blakenham”
  • Chinese: “Great Blakenham”
  • Dutch: “Great Blakenham”
  • French: “Great Blakenham”
  • Irish: “Great Blakenham”
  • Ladin: “Great Blakenham”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Great Blakenham”
  • Persian: “گریت بلکنهم”
  • Polish: “Great Blakenham”
  • Spanish: “Great Blakenham”
  • Swedish: “Great Blakenham (parish i Storbritannien)”
  • Swedish: “Great Blakenham”
  • Turkish: “Great Blakenham”
  • “Great Blakenham”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Great Blakenham”. Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.