Chelmondiston

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Chelmondiston
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Chelmondiston
Location within Suffolk
Area5.17 km2 (2.00 sq mi)
Population1,054 (2011) [1]
•  Density 204/km2 (530/sq mi)
OS grid reference TM204372
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Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town IPSWICH
Postcode district IP9
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51°59′22″N1°12′31″E / 51.98950°N 1.20861°E / 51.98950; 1.20861

Chelmondiston is a small village and civil parish in Suffolk, England located on the Shotley Peninsula, five miles south-east of Ipswich. The hamlet of Pin Mill lies within the parish on the south bank of the River Orwell. The village comprises approximately 500 dwellings and has a population of just over 1,000. It is one of the largest villages situated on the Shotley Peninsula. [2]

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History

The etymology of the word Chelmondiston is perhaps ‘Ceolmund’s dwelling’. The parish contains a number of Bronze Age barrow sites. Chelmondiston and Pin Mill do not appear in the Domesday Book of 1086. [3] It was formerly known as Chelmington [4] and was located in the old hundred of Babergh. [5]

Churches

The original parish church of St. Andrew was described in 1865 as an "old, small, dilapidated edifice, with a square tower", [6] and it was subsequently rebuilt by architect Edward Charles Hakewill. On 10 December 1944, during World War II, a flying bomb hit Hakewill's church and it was almost completely destroyed. [7] In 1951, Basil Hatcher was commissioned to provide a replacement. The modern St. Andrew's church includes a set of stained glass windows made by Francis Skeat in the 1960s. [8] There is also a Methodist church on the Main Road and a Baptist church on Pin Mill Road.

Notable residents

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References

  1. ↑ "Parish population 2011" . Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  2. ↑ "Chelmondiston and Pin Mill Parish website". OneSuffolk. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
  3. ↑ "Pin Mill conservation area appraisal" (PDF). Babergh District Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 August 2012. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
  4. ↑ "The English Home of Mr. Timothy Dalton, Parish of Woolverstone". Privately printed, 1898. Archived from the original on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
  5. ↑ "Relationships/unit history of Chelmondiston". A Vision of Britain through Time. Archived from the original on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
  6. ↑ "Post Office Directory of 1865". The History of Suffolk site. Archived from the original on 7 August 2011. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
  7. ↑ "Memories of Pin Mill - 7 December 2005". Eastern Daily Press. Archived from the original on 20 April 2013. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
  8. ↑ "St Andrew, Chelmondiston". Suffolk Churches. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
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