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Aldham, Suffolk

Village in Suffolk, England

Field	Value
country	England
static_image_name	Aldham-g3.jpg
static_image_caption	Aldham St Mary church
coordinates
official_name	Aldham
population	190
population_ref	(2022)
shire_district	Babergh
shire_county	Suffolk
region	East of England
post_town	Ipswich
postcode_district	IP7
postcode_area	IP
os_grid_reference	TM0445
mapframe	yes

Aldham is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk, England. Located around 8 mi west of Ipswich, in 2005 it had a population of 200, reducing to 175 at the 2011 Census.

History

According to Eilert Ekwall the meaning of the village name is Ealda's meadow/enclosure or old meadow/enclosure. The village was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, situated in the ancient hundred of Cosford, at which time it had a population of 16 households.

In 1555, Aldham Common was the location for the martyrdom of Dr Rowland Taylor, the rector of Hadleigh, during the Marian Persecutions of Protestants. An unhewn stone, probably dating from the early 17th century, marks the place of Taylor's death, located where the B1070 Lady Lane meets the A1071 Ipswich Road. Next to the stone is a pyramidal stone monument erected in 1818 and restored by parishioners in 1882. It is a Grade II listed building.

The church of Aldham St Mary is one of 38 existing round-tower churches in Suffolk. It appears in the second series of the BBC Four television series Detectorists.

Demography

According to the Office for National Statistics, at the time of the United Kingdom Census 2001, Aldham had a population of 200, reducing to 175 at the 2011 Census.

Population change

Population growth in Aldham from 1801 to 1891	Year	1801	1811	1821	1831	1841	1851	1881	1891	Population
197	251	292	318	293	307	238	228
'Source: A Vision of Britain Through Time'''''

Population growth in Aldham from 1901 to 2001	Year	1901	1911	1921	1931	1951	1961	2001	Population
238	207	186	186	163	126	200
'Source: A Vision of Britain Through Time'''''

Location grid

References

"Parish population 2022, ONS Mid Year Population Estimate".
Ekwall, E. (1940) ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names''; 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press; p. 5
"Open Domesday: Aldham, Suffolk".
"Rowland Taylor (1555)". ukwells.org/.
[https://books.google.com/books?id=c-kGAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA47 & Historic Sites and Other Remarkable and Interesting Places in the County of Suffolk, by John Wodderspoon, 1839, pp. 47–58]
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Webb C, [http://www.radiotimes.com/offers/travel/news/2015-10-29/where-to-find-mackenzie-crooks-detectorists-in-suffolk Where to find Mackenzie Crook's Detectorists in Suffolk], ''[[Radio Times]]''. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
"Suffolk County Council - 2001 Census Profiles".
"A Vision of Britain Through Time". University of Portsmouth & others.

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