Wattisham

For military base, see Wattisham Airfield.
Wattisham

St Nicholas church, Wattisham
Wattisham
 Wattisham shown within Suffolk
Population 110 (2005)[1]
OS grid referenceTM012515
DistrictBabergh
Shire countySuffolk
RegionEast
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town IPSWICH
Postcode district IP7
Police Suffolk
Fire Suffolk
Ambulance East of England
EU Parliament East of England
UK ParliamentSouth Suffolk
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England
Suffolk

Coordinates: 52°07′31″N 0°56′19″E / 52.12527°N 0.93868°E / 52.12527; 0.93868

Wattisham is a civil parish near to the town of Stowmarket in Suffolk, England. From the 2011 Census the population of the parish was, according the ONS included in the civil parish of Hitcham.

Wattisham Airfield

The village houses an airbase. Formerly known as RAF Wattisham, it was one of the front-line airbases in the Cold War. The RAF moved out in March 1993 and it is now the largest Army Air Corps airfield in the United Kingdom. The airbase is now named Wattisham Airfield.

Landmarks

The parish church of St Nicholas, was declared redundant by Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich in the 1970s but was taken over by a charitable trust, who use it for concerts and exhibitions, with profits reinvested into caring for the building. Diocesan architect Henry Munro Cautley (1875-1959), in his 1937 Suffolk Churches and their Treasures, found little to interest him except an armorial shield.[2]

North of the village is Wattisham Castle, dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.[3] The Wattisham Strict Baptist Chapel is located in the village.

References

  1. Estimates of Total Population of Areas in Suffolk Suffolk County Council
  2. "Wattisham St Nicholas". Suffolkchurches.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-05-15.
  3. "Wattisham Castle". britishlistedbuildings.co.uk. Retrieved 2011-05-27.

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