- Thwaite, Suffolk
Thwaite is a rural village in
England .Thwaite is based on and around the
A140 road , midway betweenSuffolk 'scounty town ofIpswich and the city ofNorwich , inNorfolk . It forms part ofMid Suffolk district.The village consists of a thatched Public House (The Bucks Head) has recently undergone a radical refurbishment, a redundant church, a recently restored 'school room' (used for small gatherings and parish meetings), and a post box. Homes include several thatched cottages interspersed with a number of individual houses, seemingly built during each decade right up to the early 2000s. The community includes a number of farms and maintains close links with neighbouring village of
Stoke Ash , which has a post office, village hall and primary school.In 1910, Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes dismantled a large timber framed house, formerly the Queens Head, located next to what is now the A140. He transported it in 688 crates from Tilbury docks to the USA, where it was reconstructed using the timbers of a wrecked English ship, on a hill overlooking
Long Island Sound nearGreenwich, Connecticut . It was re-named 'High Low House' - one of its former names whilst standing in Thwaite.The churchyard contains interesting headstones, not least the
cast iron headstone ofOrlando Whistlecraft - weather prophet and poet.External links
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