Akenham

Akenham

Akenham is a hamlet in the civil parish of Claydon near Ipswich in the English county of Suffolk consisting mostly of farmland. It was known as Acheham in the Domesday Book. The church suffered bomb damage during World War II and is maintained by the organisation Friends of Friendless Churches.

Legend

A local myth states that walking around the church thirteen times anticlockwise will summon the devil.

External links

Suffolk Parish Churches Mel Birch. Castell Publishing. ISBN 0-948134-48-8


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