OS grid reference TM012515 Sovereign state United Kingdom Police Suffolk Shire county Suffolk Postcode district IP7 UK parliament constituency South Suffolk | Country England Post town IPSWICH Fire Suffolk Population 110 (2005) District Babergh Region East | |
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Wattisham is a civil parish near to the town of Stowmarket in Suffolk, England. From the 2011 Census the population of the parish was, according the ONS included in the civil parish of Hitcham.
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Map of Wattisham, Ipswich, UK
Wattisham Airfield
The village houses an airbase. Formerly known as RAF Wattisham, it was one of the front-line airbases in the Cold War. The RAF moved out in March 1993 and it is now the largest Army Air Corps airfield in the United Kingdom. The airbase is now named Wattisham Airfield.
Landmarks
The parish church of St Nicholas, was declared redundant by Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich in the 1970s but was taken over by a charitable trust, who use it for concerts and exhibitions, with profits reinvested into caring for the building. Diocesan architect Henry Munro Cautley (1875-1959), in his 1937 Suffolk Churches and their Treasures, found little to interest him except an armorial shield.
North of the village is Wattisham Castle, dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Wattisham Strict Baptist Chapel is located in the village.