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St. Mary's, parish church of Tattingstone |
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Tattingstone
Tattingstone shown within Suffolk |
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| District | Babergh |
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| Shire county | Suffolk |
| Region | East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Ipswich |
| EU Parliament | East of England |
| List of places: UK • England • Suffolk | |
Tattingstone is a village in Babergh district in Suffolk, about 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Ipswich with a population over 500. It is the location of Tattingstone Place and also of the folly known as the Tattingstone Wonder. Tattingstone was recorded in Domesday as "Tatituna" or "Tatistuna".
A parish with 3 distinct settlements.
The main settlement houses the church, Tattingstone Park and the former Stamford House of Industry, or Workhouse (1766–1930) more recently this site was used as St Mary's hospital until it was redeveloped for housing in 1991.
Tattingstone Heath is located on the A137 whilst a small hamlet close to the White Horse is connected to the rest of the parish by Lemons Hill bridge over the western end of Alton reservoir.
The Tattingstone Estate was bequeathed to Mr Western by his father's first cousin Thomas White in 1808. Tattingstone Church (OS grid TM1337) has a vault dedicated for Thomas Western (died 1814) and his wife Guilietta Roman (died 1850) and Thomas White (died 1808). The church was robbed on Thursday, 16 October 2008.
The village was split into two halves in the 1970s when the valley was flooded to make a 400-acre (1.6 km2) reservoir. Alton Mill which once stood in the way of the development was dismantled and re-erected at the Museum of East Anglian Life in Stowmarket.
However, Tattingstone Alton Hall was not preserved and disappeared into the water. Over twenty houses and two farms were flooded to make way for the reservoir.
The pavilion which resides on the playing field in the village was constructed using the doors and some of the structural timbers from the boat house that was situated on the lakes that were in the valley prior to the flooding. The pavilion was built by five local men who used to live in the village.
The reservoir is managed by Anglian Water and is known as Alton Water or Alton Reservoir. It is now a haven for wildlife and is used by cyclists, walkers and fishermen and for other watersports.
Tattingstone Wonder is a strange folly built in about 1790 for local Squire, Edward White, who then lived in the Hall. Originally a pair of cottages, a third was added together with a mock church tower and facade to give his neighbours "something to wonder at".
The village has two pubs, the Wheatsheaf and the White Horse but the Orange Box (formerly Waterloo House) closed some time ago.
Village shop now closed.
The website and monthly newsletter is run by a sub-committee that is independent to the Parish Council and is financed through selling advertisement space to local businesses.
Tattingstonevillage.org.uk was designed and built by Chris Chambers, the site is designed in a way that when content is added to the site no previous content needs to be edited, therefore creating an archive over time meaning that every single article that is added is stored and never deleted allowing users to search and read articles going far back as the website launch date.