Letheringham
Encyclopedia
Letheringham is a sparsely populated civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal
(former Deben Rural District
) in Suffolk, England, on the Deben
River.
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,...
(former Deben Rural District
Deben Rural District
Deben Rural District was a rural district in the county of East Suffolk, England. It was created in 1934 by the merger of parts ofthe disbanded Bosemere and Claydon Rural District, the disbanded Plomesgate Rural District and the disbanded Woodbridge Rural District, under a County Review Order.It...
) in Suffolk, England, on the Deben
River Deben
The River Deben is a river in Suffolk rising in Debenham -to be precise it has two main sources but the others are mostly fields runoff then , passes through Woodbridge, turning into a tidal estuary before entering the North Sea at Felixstowe Ferry...
River.
Sights
St Mary is a tiny church, the remains of the tower and nave of a Priory church, and sits in a farmyard. It is open 24 hours a day.Personalities
- Robert NauntonRobert NauntonSir Robert Naunton was an English writer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1606 and 1626.-Life:...
(1563–1635), English politician and writer : location of death - Sir Robert WingfieldRobert WingfieldSir Robert Wingfield of Letheringham, Suffolk was an English knight.-Family:He was son of a senior Sir Robert Wingfield and Elizabeth Russell. Sir Robert Wingfield of Letheringham, Suffolk (1403 - between 6 October 1452 and 21 November 1454) was an English knight.-Family:He was son of a senior...
of Letheringham (1403–1454), a son of a senior Sir Robert Wingfield (c. 1370 – 3 May 1409) and Elizabeth Russell - Captain Edward Maria WingfieldEdward Maria WingfieldSir Edward Maria Wingfield, sometimes hyphenated as Edward-Maria Wingfield, was a soldier, Member of Parliament, and English colonist in America...
(1550–1631), a soldier, Member of Parliament, (1593) and English colonist in America
Trivia
- AkenfieldAkenfieldAkenfield is a film made by Peter Hall in 1974, based loosely upon the book Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by Ronald Blythe . It can claim a degree of cult status as a work of rural realism, unusual in relation to East Anglia...
, a film turned in 1976 partly in Letheringham - LedringhemLedringhem- Place names :The village center consists of the main square , the church, the cemetery, the town's hall and the village park, forming an islet nested in a large turn of the route de Wormhout.There are two subdivisons:...
, a village in Nord département, France could share a same topoymy.