OS grid reference TM004713 Country England Post town Bury St Edmunds Local time Saturday 1:19 PM Postcode district IP31 Population 1,213 (2011) | Region East Sovereign state United Kingdom EU Parliament East of England Shire county Suffolk District Mid Suffolk | |
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Walsham-le-Willows is a village in Suffolk, England, located around 2½ miles (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.
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Map of Walsham le Willows, Bury Saint Edmunds, UK
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).
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.
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Walsham-le-Willows Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA