Chelmondiston

Chelmondiston

Chelmondiston

Human settlement in England

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

References

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