Long Melford, Suffolk - Church of Holy Trinity 1990s

Postcard

 

• Picture / Image:  'Vintage Suffolk' and the Church of Holy Trinity, Long Melford, Suffolk - photography by George Allsop
• Publisher:  J. Arthur Dixon (PSF29855)
• Postally used:  no - message written but not posted
• Stamp:  n/a
• Postmark(s):  n/a
• Sent to:  n/a
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Long Melford (or Melford, as it is known locally) is a large village and civil parish in the county of Suffolk, England. It is on Suffolk's border with Essex, which is marked by the River Stour, approximately 16 miles (26 km) from Colchester and 14 miles (23 km) from Bury St. Edmunds. The parish also includes the hamlets of Bridge Street and Cuckoo Tye.

Its name is derived from the nature of the village's layout (originally concentrated along a 3 mile stretch of a single road) and the Mill ford crossing the Chad Brook (a tributary of the River Stour).

Long Melford is notable for its large collection of antiques shops and dealers

The area now occupied by Long Melford has been occupied since at least 100 B.C. The village's layout was defined in Roman times with the empire building two roads thorough Melford, the main one running from Chelmsford through to Pakenham. Roman remains were discovered in a gravel pit in 1828,^[2] a site now occupied by the village's football club.

The Manor of Melford was given to the Abbey of St.Edmundsbury by Earl Aflric in ca. 1050.^[3] The village is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 which lists the manor of Long Melford as an estate of 600 hectares. The neighbouring Manor of Kentwell is also recorded. Following the dissolution of the Monasteries, Henry VIII granted the manor to Sir William Cordell.^[3]