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Shadingfield is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of the English county of Suffolk. It is located around south of Beccles in the north of the county.
The village is spread along a stretch of the A145 road between Beccles and Blythburgh to the south. Shadingfield, Suffolk Heritage Explorer, Suffolk County Council. Retrieved 2021-02-11. The Ipswich to Lowestoft railway line runs through the west of the parish, with the nearest stations at Brampton and Beccles railway stations.
The village itself is joined with Willingham St Mary and west of Sotterley. The parish council operates to administer jointly the parishes of Shadingfield, Willingham, Sotterley and Ellough. Shadingfield, Sotterley, Willingham and Ellough Parish Council Website, 2021. Retrieved 2021-02-10. Other than Willingham and Sotterley, the parish also borders Brampton with Stoven, Redisham and Weston.
At the 2011 United Kingdom census the population of the parish was 178. This had risen slightly from a mid-2005 population estimate of 170, Estimates of Total Population of Areas in Suffolk, Suffolk County Council, 2007-05-01. Retrieved 2009-04-19. ( Archived, 2008-12-19.) and significantly from a 1981 population of 103. Some houses in Redisham village are within the Shadingfield parish area.
Shadingfield Hall is a Grade II listed Georgian house. It was built between 1806 and 1808 for Thomas Charles Scott, replacing a mid 16th-century manor house. Scott's son, the Reverend T C Scott was Rector of Shadingfield until 1897. Shadingfield Hall, Historic England. Retrieved 2021-02-11. The house is now on the Sotterley estate. Then Prime Minister Gordon Brown took his family holiday at Shadingfield Hall in the summer of 2008. PM appeared to be having lovely holiday, Lowestoft Journal, 2010-03-03. Retrieved 2021-02-11.Barnes J (2010) Suffolk: Gordon Brown’s bleak break at Shadingfield, East Anglian Daily Times, 2010-12-14. Retrieved 2021-02-11.Rimmer J (2019) Yours for a cool £1.8m - former holiday home of Gordon Brown near Suffolk coast, East Anglian Daily Times, 2019-02-24. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
Culture and community
Shadingfield and Willingham share the limited amenities in the village, with the village hall, playground area and a Public house, the Shadingfield Fox, all on the parish boundary. Shadingfield, Sotterley, Willingham & Ellough, Healthy Suffolk, 2016. Retrieved 2021-02-10. Willingham St Mary, Suffolk Pubs, Suffolk Campaign for Real Ale. Retrieved 2011-06-23. Waveney Local Plan, Waveney District Council, adopted 2019, published by East Suffolk District Council, 2019, pp.191–192. Retrieved 2020-02-10. Children attend a primary school in Brampton and the Sir John Leman High School in Beccles. The local church, alongside the A145, is dedicated to St John the Baptist.Knott S (2016) St John the Baptist, Shadingfield, Suffolk Churches. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
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