Rushmere is a small village adjacent to the town of Ipswich

Ipswich

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, Suffolk

Suffolk

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. The village

Village

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 lies within the parish of Rushmere St. Andrew. The parish has a population of over 6,000. In Rushmere, there is a pub, The Garland, a CofE church, a Baptist church, two rugby clubs and a village hall. There are lots of fields with horses, and also lots of routes into the well known Fynn Valley. Most of Rushmere is on one road, Rushmere Road. It also has many farms and abandoned land. The boundary between Rushmere St Andrew and Ipswich runs along part of Humber Doucy Lane, which leads to the neighbouring village of Westerfield

Westerfield

Westerfield is a village in Suffolk, England.It is located approximately two miles north of the centre of Ipswich. The village is served by Westerfield railway station on the Ipswich-Lowestoft East Suffolk Line....

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