In the 3rd blog of this series, we take a walk down School Road where despite being in the throws of a global pandemic, local residents put out the flags and celebrated VE Day with true community spirit, whilst at the same time adhering to strict government restrictions on social distancing. It was indeed an important day, being the 75th…
The second post in this series of blogs takes us down Fishpond Road, a relatively quiet back road in the village and home to the founding father and President of the Waldringfield History Group, Joe Clark and his wife, Kit, at 'Woodside', along with their labrador, Boots. Joe and Kit have lived in the village for 55 years with Kit's family…
In 2019, plans were afoot to capture life in the village in 2020, marking 20 years since Kit Clark's Millennium Albums. Little did we know that just around the corner was a global pandemic! The first lockdown started on 23rd March 2020, and life changed for everyone in some form or other. This didn't deter us from circulating a survey…
The official 2019 footpath map has a confusing Parish Boundary with a more southerly northern boundary and bulge at the Heath. Both maps courtesy of Suffolk County Council. This is due to a legal technicality with the way footpaths are recorded on a 1954 map with a different boundary. So, the footpaths are correct but the boundary isn't.…
See 1800 Isaac Johnson map and note that on 1945 aerial photos it looks like the shadow of a road where the path is now that to where ] ended. It does look wider than the road. Mysterious.
This shows how ] was referred to just as "Leading to the Street" which was ]. Note also how ] continues directly from it without today's dogleg. The status of the Northern part of Mill Lane is unclear. ] does not appear. On the ] ] is called "New Road" - we don't know when the ] was built. Little change…
WLD 058 - Ditched trackways and field boundaries of probable later prehistoric date can be seen as cropmarks on aerial photographs, Waldringfield parish. see here
?JERIES WAY ?LEROYES WAY ?TERYER WAY or JERYES WAY CHURCH WAY CROUCH WAY drift way highway leading from WALDRINGFIELD STREET to IPSWICH highway leading towards WALDRINGFIELD CLIFF JOINES WAY? LONG LANE MARK WAY MARK WAY leading to the CLIFF REEVES WAY in part, otherwise the MARSH WAY RIVERSHALL WAY TERYER WAY? JERYES WAY The CLIFF WAY THE CLIFFE WAY The…
aka ] New House, QUEITWAYS, 1, 2, 3, 4, New Oak Tree Farm. Built by Mrs. Stevens who had a chicken farm next to Oak garage. Now owned by local farmer David Parken who as child lived at ]. Bungalow, ]
Page needs re-ordering. Known as Maybush Lane in the late 19C. On the East side. Village ] Built in 1875 by Rev. Thomas Henry Waller and eventually sold to the local Education Authority in 1904. School House together with ] a pair of Pretyman Cottages. The schoolmaster Mr Tompkins lived there. ] No.L Paddock Barn No.2 Riffhams , Ryelands ,…
Northside - Hillcrest, Crossways - Originally a pair of Pretyman Cottages, now one house & much extended from original building. Low Farm and Camp Site.
White Hall Cottage (now Plum Tree Cottage) An old cottage rebuilt in 1973 as a retirement cottage for Canon Trevor Waller and his wife. Unfortunately Mrs. Waller died shortly after they moved in, but Canon Trevor ] remained there until his death in 1996. Now a holiday home. White Hall - Part of the Waller inheritance, through the marriage of…
Church Meadows - No.1, No.3, RIVER COTTAGE, MEADOW VIEW, GALLEONS on the site of a Bungalow (picture somewhere). Penny Hedge. So called as the owner found a penny in the hedge. ] Bungalows 1 2 3 , Seven Moons A modern bungalow built around an old army hut, originally named Hawthorns. The four ] maiden aunts lived there after the…
School Road 1910 - Rural East Suffolk In Old Photographs - Edward Chilvers East side - Prior to the opening of the new school in 1875 School Road was a little used lane with only one property, Miss Mary Pretymans cottage, on the east side of the lane. The coprolite carts no doubt used the lane to reach…
Previously called The Street, and was the main route into the village and down to the river. It avoided the ‘hill' in ‘School Road' and was an easier route for the horses. In the 19C there was a ] .Before the early years of the 20th century the lanes would have little better than cart tracks, such as we see…
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