Wordwell

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Wordwell is a small village in Suffolk about five miles North of Bury St Edmunds. The village was hit badly by the Black Death in 1348 and never really seems to have recovered in terms of population. During the 19th and early 20th centuries it was part of the Culford Estate.

The Church is largely Norman but with Victorian alterations. Wordwell is also one of very few Thankful Villages, that is to say one which lost no men during either World Wars. The church is a very atmospheric place, and has some very unusual carvings on benches and in stone.

A mass grave, probably from the time of the black death, was found some point last century when electricity was provided to the church. If you look on something like Google Earth, you can see the outlines of buildings that once stood on the other side of the road.