Great Bealings
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  Great Bealings shown within Suffolk |
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| District | Suffolk Coastal |
| Shire county | Suffolk |
| Region | East |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Woodbridge |
| Postcode district | IP13 |
| Dialling code | 01473 |
| Police | Suffolk |
| Fire | Suffolk |
| Ambulance | East of England |
| European Parliament | East of England |
| UK Parliament | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich |
| List of places: UK • England • Suffolk | |
Great Bealings is a small village in Suffolk, England. It has about 310 people living in it, in around 120 households. Its nearest towns are Ipswich (6 miles/9.6 km away) and Woodbridge (2.6 miles/4.1 km away). Nearby villages include Little Bealings, Playford, Culpho, Hasketon and Grundisburgh. The village does not have an obvious centre, and the population is split between 2 areas - one around Lower Street to the East of the village, and the other at Boot Street/Grundisburgh Road to the West of the village. St Mary's, the village church, is about in the middle of these two centres of population.
Great Bealings was, for many years, the home of John Ganzoni, Lord Belstead.
The River Lark passes through the middle of the village, and is crossed by the main road with a hump back bridge which is sufficiently "humped" to be the cause of accidents to people trying to drive over it too fast.
[edit] Images of Great Bealings
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| St Mary's church from over the Lark | And from its churchyard | Great Bealings old vicarage Lord Belstead's home until his death |
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| The hump-backed bridge | The River Lark from the bridge | The war memorial |
