The village gives its name to the hundred of Bosmere-and-Claydon, one of the 21 districts into which Suffolk was divided for administrative purposes between Saxon and Victorian times.[2]
The countryside around Claydon is set among low-lying hills and lies next to the River Gipping. It is close to the intersection of the A14 and the B1113. Between the A14 and the B1113 (former A45) is the Ipswich to Ely Line.
AmenitiesEdit
The village has two pubs: The Crown and The Greyhound. There is also a bakers and sandwich bar Freshfills, post office, fish and chip shop, hotel, hairdressers, car dealership and travel agency. It also has a primary school and Claydon High School. There are regular bus connections to Ipswich, Bramford and Stowmarket from the centre of the village.
At the top of the hill on Church Lane can be found the Church of St Peter, which has been partially restored. It is one of the few pre-Norman churches in Suffolk. The interior contains a wooden fan-vaulted ceiling.
An Air Force distribution depot was constructed around 1939 by Shell-Mex & BP for the Air Ministry. It received fuel by rail and distributed it by road tanker. In the 1970s two new sites were constructed with modern storage tanks and pump-houses. It was connected to the Government Pipeline and Storage System and supplied RAF Bentwaters and Woodbridge. The wartime site was sold off in the mid 2000s and later demolished. The other two sites are no longer operational.[3]
ReferencesEdit
^"Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
claydon, suffolk, this, article, needs, additional, citations, verification, please, help, improve, this, article, adding, citations, reliable, sources, unsourced, material, challenged, removed, find, sources, news, newspapers, books, scholar, jstor, august, 2. This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Claydon Suffolk news newspapers books scholar JSTOR August 2009 Learn how and when to remove this template message Claydon is a village just north of Ipswich in Suffolk England The meaning of the name is clay on the hill ClaydonChurch of St PeterClaydonLocation within SuffolkPopulation2 197 2011 1 OS grid referenceTM1350DistrictMid SuffolkShire countySuffolkRegionEastCountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townIPSWICHPostcode districtIP6PoliceSuffolkFireSuffolkAmbulanceEast of EnglandUK ParliamentBury St EdmundsList of places UK England Suffolk 52 06 26 N 1 06 32 E 52 10729 N 1 10898 E 52 10729 1 10898The village gives its name to the hundred of Bosmere and Claydon one of the 21 districts into which Suffolk was divided for administrative purposes between Saxon and Victorian times 2 Contents 1 Geography 2 Amenities 3 Former fuel storage depot 4 References 5 External linksGeography EditThe countryside around Claydon is set among low lying hills and lies next to the River Gipping It is close to the intersection of the A14 and the B1113 Between the A14 and the B1113 former A45 is the Ipswich to Ely Line Amenities EditThe village has two pubs The Crown and The Greyhound There is also a bakers and sandwich bar Freshfills post office fish and chip shop hotel hairdressers car dealership and travel agency It also has a primary school and Claydon High School There are regular bus connections to Ipswich Bramford and Stowmarket from the centre of the village At the top of the hill on Church Lane can be found the Church of St Peter which has been partially restored It is one of the few pre Norman churches in Suffolk The interior contains a wooden fan vaulted ceiling Nearby villages include Barham Bramford Great Blakenham and the hamlet of Akenham Former fuel storage depot EditAn Air Force distribution depot was constructed around 1939 by Shell Mex amp BP for the Air Ministry It received fuel by rail and distributed it by road tanker In the 1970s two new sites were constructed with modern storage tanks and pump houses It was connected to the Government Pipeline and Storage System and supplied RAF Bentwaters and Woodbridge The wartime site was sold off in the mid 2000s and later demolished The other two sites are no longer operational 3 References Edit Civil Parish population 2011 Neighbourhood Statistics Office for National Statistics Retrieved 19 August 2016 Walter Skeat 1913 The Place names of Suffolk Tim Whittle Fuelling the Wars PLUTO and the Secret Pipeline Network 1936 to 2015 published 2017 p210 ISBN 9780992855468External links Edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Claydon Suffolk Church of St Peter Claydon Pub History nbsp This Suffolk location article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Claydon Suffolk amp oldid 1149824121, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
