OS grid reference TM282446 Country England Post town Woodbridge Shire county Suffolk Population 464 (2012) | Region East Sovereign state United Kingdom Postcode district IP12 4 District Suffolk Coastal UK parliament constituency Suffolk Coastal | |
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Waldringfield suffolk
Waldringfield is a village and civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal district, in the county of Suffolk, England. It is situated on the bank of the River Deben within the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, 4 miles (6.4 km) south of the town of Woodbridge and 8 miles (12.9 km) east of the county town of Ipswich.
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- Map of Waldringfield Woodbridge UK
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Map of Waldringfield, Woodbridge, UK
All Saints church dates from the 14th century. Restored in the 19th century, it is a grade II* listed building.
Waldringfield Heath, between the village and Martlesham on the edge of Ipswich, is the site of Waldringfield Golf Club.
It also has a Yacht Club called Waldringfield Yacht Club.
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History
The name Waldringfield is derived from the Old English words meaning ‘open land of the family or followers of a man called Waldhere’. The length of human habitation at Waldringfield is unknown but iron age finds such a pottery shards from the 1st century BC have been found locally. Record of the settlement is found in the Domesday Book of 1086 under the name 'Waldingafelda' along with the name 'Minima Waldringafelda' (Lesser Waldringfield).
The village had an industrial heyday from about 1860 to 1907. First, until about 1895, coprolite was dug up locally, washed and sifted on the beach and shipped by barge to be processed in factories in Ipswich, as part of the early fertiliser industry. Then, at the end of the nineteenth century, a cement making industry used mud from the river mixed with chalk brought in by barge from the Medway. Served by one hundred barges a month and employing twelve ‘bottleneck’ kilns, the industry survived until 1907. The kilns were demolished in 1912.