Population 270 (2005)
255 (2011) Country England Post town Bury St Edmunds Shire county Suffolk | Region East Sovereign state United Kingdom Postcode district IP28 District St Edmundsbury | |
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Lackford is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around four miles north-west of Bury St Edmunds on the A1101, in 2005 it had a population of 270. The name is believed to be derived from the place where wild leeks where found rather than a ford over the River Lark in whose valley in lies.
Map of Lackford, Bury Saint Edmunds, UK
The parish contains the Lackford Lakes nature reserve and SSSI, created from reclaimed gravel pits. The Black Ditches run to the west of the parish and mark the parish boundary with Cavenham in places. These are believed to be the most easterly of a series of early Anglo-Saxon defensive earthworks built across the Icknield Way.
Lackford Hall is believed to have been built around 1570 by the fourth son of the squire of West Stow Hall. The hall is a three chimeyed timber-framed, Medieval hall house containing church and abbey stone reclaimed following the dissolution of the Roman Catholic Church by Henry VIII. The Hall is believed by local historians to have been a hunting and fishing lodge. Lackford Lakes Barns are an adjacent quadrangle of barns built from local timber and flint around 1839, based upon engravings in the windows.
The mediaeval St Lawrence's church is a grade II* listed building.