Walsham-le-Willows

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Signpost of Walsham-le-Willows
Coordinates: 52°18′11″N 0°56′17″E / 52.303°N 0.938°E / 52.303; 0.938
Walsham-le-Willows
Walsham-le-Willows

 Walsham-le-Willows shown within Suffolk
OS grid reference TM004713
District Mid Suffolk
Shire county Suffolk
Region East
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
EU Parliament East of England
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Walsham-le-Willows is a village in Suffolk, England, located around 4 km south-east of Stanton, and lies in the Mid Suffolk council district. Queen Elizabeth I had granted Walsham-le-Willows to Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, in 1559.

Because the village is documented unusually fully in surviving records of the time, the Cambridge historian John Hatcher chose to use it as the setting for his semi-fictionalised account of the effects of the mid-14th-century plague epidemic in England, The Black Death: A Personal History (2008).[1]

Sport & Leisure

Walsham-le-Willows has a Non-League football club Walsham-le-Willows F.C. currently in the Eastern Counties League who play at Sumner Road.

Sources

  • Kenneth Melton Dodd (editor), The Field-Book of Walsham-le-Willows 1577 (Ipswich: Suffolk Records Society, 1974).

References

  1. ↑ Hatcher, John (2008). The Black Death: A Personal History. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo. p. 1. ISBN 0-306-81571-0. 

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