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Population
  
4,528 (2011 Census)

District
  
Mid Suffolk

Country
  
England

Local time
  
Thursday 10:58 AM

Post town
  
Ipswich

UK parliament constituency
  
Bury St Edmunds

OS grid reference
  
TM090548

Region
  
East

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Shire county
  
Suffolk

Dialling code
  
01449

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Weather
  
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Needham Market is a town in Suffolk, England. The town of Needham, Massachusetts was named after Needham Market.

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Map of Needham Market, Ipswich, UK

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History

It initially grew around the wool combing industry, until the onset of the plague, which swept the town from 1663 to 1665. To prevent the spread of the disease, the town was chained at either end, which succeeded in its task but at the cost of two-thirds of the populace. The town did not recover for nearly two hundred years, with the canalisation of the River Gipping in the late 18th Century and the introduction of the railway. Modern Needham Market contains two road names that are linked to the plague. Chainhouse Road, named after the chains that ran across the East end of the town. The Causeway, is a modern variation of 'the corpseway' so called because of the route that plague victims were transported out of town, to neighbouring Barking church for interment.

The village contains many businesses; a post office and stationers, hairdressers, Bretts Bakery, Smiths Butchers, Pauls Hardware shop and many more.

Notable buildings

Notable Buildings in the town include:

  • The 15th century parish church, the church of St. John the Baptist, originally a chapel of ease for the parish of Barking (with a unique double-hammerbeam roof). - Which is currently searching for funding for its utterly unique wooden beamed roof.
  • The mediaeval Limes Hotel
  • The Stuart era school.
  • Hawks Mill
  • The Victorian railway station, built in 1849.
  • no.12 High Street. A house now called The Waggon (after the Waggon and Horses Public House that once occupied), it was originally an Elizabethan construction of 1591: a 'black and white' design typical of the period, called The Old Hall.
  • United Reform Church (now called Christchurch) was built in 1837.
  • English architect, Frederick Barnes designed the Town Hall in 1866.
  • The Almshouses are medieval (now called The Causeway).
  • The Quaker Meeting House and its graveyard was constructed during the ages of enlightenment and revolution in 1772.

    • Sport and leisure

    Needham Market has a Non-League football club Needham Market F.C. who play at Bloomfields, they have been very successful over recent years after reaching the semi-finals of the FA Vase.

    The town is on the route of the Dunwich Dynamo annual cycle ride.

    Needham Lake (a former gravel pit) provides leisure facilities and a wildlife habitat.

    Transport

    The East Anglia Main Line railway runs through the town, with Needham Market railway station providing trains to Ipswich and Cambridge. The A14 (although then the A45) once ran directly through Needham Market, but a bypass was built in the 1970s. This has left the town with good road links to the surrounding area, but with less traffic than before.

    Notable people

    Notable people from Needham include:

  • Joseph Priestley who discovered oxygen
  • June Brown actress from EastEnders
  • George Ewart Evans famous author who lived here
  • Ros Scott The Liberal Democrat peer, a former district and county councillor for the town, chose it for her title.

    • References

    Needham Market Wikipedia
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