Population 1,054 (2011) Region East Sovereign state United Kingdom Local time Saturday 1:25 AM District Babergh | OS grid reference TM204372 Country England Post town IPSWICH Shire county Suffolk UK parliament constituency South Suffolk | |
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Chelmondiston is a small village and civil parish in Suffolk, England located on the Shotley peninsula, five miles south-east of Ipswich. The hamlet of Pin Mill lies within the parish on the south bank of the River Orwell. The village comprises approximately 500 dwellings and has a population of just over 1,000.
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Map of Chelmondiston, Ipswich, UK
History
The etymology of the word Chelmondiston is perhaps ‘Ceolmund’s dwelling’. The parish contains a number of Bronze Age barrow sites. Chelmondiston and Pin Mill do not appear in the Domesday Book of 1086. It was formerly known as Chelmington and was located in the old Hundred of Babergh.
Churches
The original parish church of St. Andrew was described in 1865 as an "old, small, dilapidated edifice, with a square tower", and it was subsequently rebuilt by architect Edward Charles Hakewill. On 10 December 1944, during World War II, a flying bomb hit Hakewill's church and it was almost completely destroyed. In 1951, Basil Hatcher was commissioned to provide a replacement. The modern St. Andrew's church includes a set of stained glass windows made by Francis Skeat in the 1960s. There is also a Methodist church on the Main Road and a Baptist church on Pin Mill Road.