Brightwell, Suffolk
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Brightwell is a village and a civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal
District, in the English county of Suffolk
. It has a place of worship. For transport there is the A12 road nearby. It is near the large town of Ipswich
. Adjacent parishes include Foxhall
, Bucklesham
, Martlesham
and Newbourne
.
John Constable
painted a landscape in oil in 1815 of Brightwell.
Suffolk Coastal
Suffolk Coastal is a local government district in Suffolk, England. Its council is based in Woodbridge. Other towns include Felixstowe.The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of the municipal borough of Aldeburgh, along with Felixstowe,...
District, in the English county of Suffolk
Suffolk
Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...
. It has a place of worship. For transport there is the A12 road nearby. It is near the large town of Ipswich
Ipswich
Ipswich is a large town and a non-metropolitan district. It is the county town of Suffolk, England. Ipswich is located on the estuary of the River Orwell...
. Adjacent parishes include Foxhall
Foxhall, Suffolk
Foxhall is a civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal district of Suffolk, England, a few miles east of Ipswich. It is adjacent to the parishes of Kesgrave to the north, Martlesham to the north east, Brightwell to the east, Purdis Heath to the south and the borough of Ipswich to the west. The three...
, Bucklesham
Bucklesham
Bucklesham is a village and civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal district of Suffolk, England, a few miles east of Ipswich.The village pub is The Shannon, named after Admiral Brooke's ship....
, Martlesham
Martlesham
Martlesham is a village in Suffolk, England about two miles South-West of Woodbridge and East of Ipswich. It is often referred to as "old Martlesham" by locals in order to distinguish this old village from the much more recent Martlesham Heath development to the south although both form a...
and Newbourne
Newbourne
Newbourne is a village and civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal region of Suffolk, England. It lies on the peninsula between the River Orwell and the River Deben, to the east of Ipswich and south of Woodbridge.- Etymology :...
.
John Constable
John Constable
John Constable was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home—now known as "Constable Country"—which he invested with an intensity of affection...
painted a landscape in oil in 1815 of Brightwell.