Stradishall

Stradishall

St. Margaret's Church
Stradishall
Stradishall shown within Suffolk
Population 451 (2011)[1]
OS grid reference TL7452
Civil parish
  • Stradishall
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town NEWMARKET
Postcode district CB8
Dialling code 01440
Police Suffolk
Fire Suffolk
Ambulance East of England
EU Parliament East of England
UK Parliament

Stradishall is a village and civil parish in the Borough of St Edmundsbury in the English county of Suffolk.

The civil parish includes a number of hamlets including Farley Green.

The Royal Air Force operated an airfield near Stradishall, RAF Stradishall, which was operational between 1938 and 1970. The former airfield is now the site of two category C prisons: HMP Highpoint North and HMP Highpoint South. Part of the former airfield remains a MOD training site which is closed to the public. There is a memorial to RAF Stradishall outside Stirling House which was once part of the officers quarters and now is a training unit for the Prison service. The village has an Anglican church dedicated to St Margaret.

Notable residents

  • Lauri Love, activist and alleged computer system hacker.[2][3][4]
  • John Reeder, Sr., (1613-1659), of Stradishall, Norfolk, England, Emigrated to America in 1630 on Winthrop's flagship 'the Arabella'; Pioneer; Settled in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and then Newtown, Long Island, New York.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
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  5. ↑ Lee, Francis B. (1907). "Genealogy and Personal Memories of Mercer County, New Jersey". Volume 2, Mercer County, New Jersey: Lewis Publishing Company.

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