Eriswell

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Eriswell
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St Laurence Church, Eriswell
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Eriswell
Location within Suffolk
Population3,101 (2011) [1]
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Brandon
Postcode district IP27
UK Parliament
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UK
England
Suffolk
52°22′01″N0°31′59″E / 52.367°N 0.533°E / 52.367; 0.533

Eriswell is a village and civil parish of West Suffolk in the English county of Suffolk. In 2011 the parish had a population of 3101.

About forty scattered archaeological finds have been made here, including Bronze Age battle axes, palstaves and rapiers. [2] The greater part of these objects have been entrusted to the Moyse's Hall Museum in Bury St Edmunds while other items are in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge. From 1974 to 2019 it was in Forest Heath district.

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References

  1. "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  2. Hall, David (1994). Fenland survey : an essay in landscape and persistence. London: English Heritage. pp. 81–88. ISBN   1-85074-477-7.

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