Lackford

Lackford

St Lawrence's church
Lackford
 Lackford shown within Suffolk
Population 270 (2005)[1]
255 (2011)[2]
DistrictSt Edmundsbury
Shire countySuffolk
RegionEast
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town Bury St Edmunds
Postcode district IP28
Police Suffolk
Fire Suffolk
Ambulance East of England
EU Parliament East of England
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Coordinates: 52°18′04″N 0°37′34″E / 52.301°N 0.626°E / 52.301; 0.626

Lackford is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around four miles north-west of Bury St Edmunds on the A1101, in 2005 it had a population of 270.[1] The name is believed to be derived from the place where wild leeks where found rather than a ford over the River Lark in whose valley in lies.

The parish contains the Lackford Lakes nature reserve and SSSI, created from reclaimed gravel pits. The Black Ditches run to the west of the parish and mark the parish boundary with Cavenham in places. These are believed to be the most easterly of a series of early Anglo-Saxon defensive earthworks built across the Icknield Way.

Lackford Hall is believed to have been built around 1570 by the fourth son of the squire of West Stow Hall. The hall is a three chimeyed timber-framed, Medieval hall house containing church and abbey stone reclaimed following the dissolution of the Roman Catholic Church by Henry VIII. The Hall is believed by local historians to have been a hunting and fishing lodge. Lackford Lakes Barns are an adjacent quadrangle of barns built from local timber and flint around 1839, based upon engravings in the windows.

The mediaeval St Lawrence's church is a grade II* listed building. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 Estimates of Total Population of Areas in Suffolk Suffolk County Council
  2. ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
  3. ↑ "Name: CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE List entry Number: 1180661". English Heritage. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
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