Mendham, Suffolk

Mendham

Church of All Saints
Mendham
Mendham shown within Suffolk
Population 440 (2005)[1]
451 (2011)[2]
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Harleston
Postcode district IP20
Police Suffolk
Fire Suffolk
Ambulance East of England
EU Parliament East of England

Mendham is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located on the east bank of the River Waveney around a mile east of Harleston, in 2005 its population was 440.[1] The parish includes the hamlets of Withersdale Street. The Mendham Marshes are also within the parish boundaries.

Until the 19th century, around 25% of the parish fell in Norfolk and 75% in Suffolk.[3]

Mendham's most famous son, born to a local miller, went on to become Sir Alfred James Munnings KCVO, PRA (8 October 1878 – 17 July 1959), known as one of England's finest painters of horses, and as an outspoken enemy of Modernism. An extract of one of his paintings, featuring gypsy Charlotte Gray leading a pony, has been incorporated into the Mendham village sign. Her husband Frederick or 'Nobby' Gray was one of Alfred's closest friends and a model in some of his paintings. Both Nobby and Charlotte are buried in All Saints churchyard in Mendham.

References

  1. 1 2 Estimates of Total Population of Areas in Suffolk Archived 2008-12-19 at the Wayback Machine. Suffolk County Council
  2. ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
  3. ↑ William White (1844). History, gazetteer, and directory of Suffolk. p. 449.


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