- Wordwell
Wordwell is a small village in
Suffolk about five miles North ofBury St Edmunds . The village was hit badly by theBlack Death in 1348 and never really seems to have recovered in terms of population. During the 19th and early 20th centuries it was part of theCulford Estate.The Church is largely Norman but with Victorian alterations. Wordwell is also one of very few
Thankful Villages , that is to say one which lost no men during either World Wars. The church is a very atmospheric place, and has some very unusual carvings on benches and in stone.A mass grave, probably from the time of the black death, was found some point last century when electricity was provided to the church. If you look on something like
Google Earth , you can see the outlines of buildings that once stood on the other side of the road.External links
* [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/wordwell.htm All Saint's Church at SuffolkChurches.co.uk]
* [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/31897 Wordwell Church at Geograph.org.uk]
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