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Westhorpe, Suffolk

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Population
  
208 (2011)

Region
  
East

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Shire county
  
Suffolk

OS grid reference
  
TM045691

Country
  
England

Post town
  
Stowmarket

District
  
Mid Suffolk

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Westhorpe is a linear village and civil parish in the Suffolk countryside, thirteen miles (21 km) from Bury St. Edmunds, eight miles from Stowmarket and a mile (3 km) from the villages of Wyverstone and Finningham.

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Map of Westhorpe, Stowmarket, UK

Administratively Westhorpe forms part of the non-metropolitan district of Mid Suffolk.

Westhorpe Hall was a former seat of the Dukes of Suffolk and the place of death of Mary Tudor, Queen of France, with its close neighbour East Thorpe manor, being the seat of a previous duke, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk.

Notable people

  • Jean Kent (1921−2013), film and television actress, lived there until her death
  • John Clarke (3 October 1609 – 20 April 1676), medical doctor, Baptist minister, co-founder of the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, author of its influential charter, and a leading advocate of religious freedom in the Americas.

    • References

    Westhorpe, Suffolk Wikipedia
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