Tostock

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Tostock
Location within Suffolk
Population472 (2011)
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town BURY ST EDMUNDS
Postcode district IP30
Dialling code 01359
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England
Suffolk
52°14′06″N0°51′43″E / 52.235°N 0.862°E / 52.235; 0.862

Tostock is a small village around eight miles east of Bury St. Edmunds in the county of Suffolk. It is a very traditional Suffolk village, with a good example of a fourteenth-century church.

Contents

As of 2011, the village is host to 198 houses with 472 residents. [1]

Layout

The village's houses are primarily located around two greens, The Green, forming the centre of the village and The Leys, to the south side of the village and home to the village pond.

Church

The Parish Church of St. Andrew is Grade I listed. [2] There was a church in Tostock mentioned in the Domesday survey of 1086 [3] but the present building is believed to date from the 12th century. The tower was constructed in stages from about 1350. [4] It is believed that the tower was completed in the 1460s as the oldest of its four bells dates from that time. [5]

St Andrew's Church, Tostock, Suffolk, May 2007 St Andrew's Church Tostock Suffolk.JPG
St Andrew's Church, Tostock, Suffolk, May 2007

Village pub

The Gardener's Arms public house stands next to the village green alongside the chestnut tree that was planted in 1935 to commemorate the silver jubilee of King George V. [6]

The Gardeners Arms, Tostock, Suffolk, May 2007 The Gardeners Arms Pub, Tostock, Suffolk.JPG
The Gardeners Arms, Tostock, Suffolk, May 2007

Village school

Tostock's Victorian school building was opened in 1874 and closed in 1945. [7] Today, most children attend either Norton CEVC Primary School [8] or Woolpit Primary School, [9] or Thurston Community College.

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References

  1. ↑ "Civi Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  2. ↑ "CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, Tostock - 1352395 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
  3. ↑ "Tostock | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
  4. ↑ O'Reilly, J (2000). Tostock Past and Present. Tostock Past and Present Society.
  5. ↑ Paine, C (1995). Proceedings of Suffolk Institute of History and Archaeology, vol. XXXVIII part 3
  6. ↑ Copeland, D (2000). Tostock Past and Present. Tostock Past and Present Society.
  7. ↑ O'Reilly, J (2000). Tostock Past and Present. Tostock Past and Present Society.
  8. ↑ "home page". Norton Primary School website. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  9. ↑ "Woolpit Primary School". school-portal.co.uk. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
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