Earl Soham

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Earl Soham
Earl Soham, Church of St Mary
Earl Soham Location within Suffolk
Population	455 (2011)^[1]
OS grid reference	TM2363
District	East Suffolk
Shire county	Suffolk
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Woodbridge
Postcode district	IP13

Police	Suffolk
Fire	Suffolk
Ambulance	East of England

UK Parliament	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
List of places UK England Suffolk 52°13′N 1°16′E / 52.22°N 01.26°E / 52.22; 01.26Coordinates: 52°13′N 1°16′E / 52.22°N 01.26°E / 52.22; 01.26

Earl Soham is a small settlement in Suffolk, England. It is on the A1120 road and is 4 kilometres (2 mi) west of the town of Framlingham.

Earl Soham once belonged to the Earls of Norfolk, the Bigod family (sometimes spelt "Bigot" in old texts), who also owned nearby Framlingham Castle. Edward I granted Roger Bigod permission to hold a market and a lamb and stock fair in the village. The parish was in the hundred of Loes well before 1086.^[2] The church dates from about 1320 (chancel) with the nave dated to about 1470 (Kelly's Suffolk Directory 1900) and a perpendicular west tower c. 1475.^[3] The Baptist Chapel was built around 1863. The school was first built in 1850. Earl Soham Lodge was originally a hunting lodge, built in the 13th century but rebuilt in 1789. For many years it was the seat of the Cornwallis family. The population of the village peaked in the 19th century with over 750 inhabitants.

Sir Auckland Colvin, colonial administrator in India and Egypt, is buried in the village churchyard.

Governance[]

An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches south to Charsfield with a total population taken at the 2011 Census of 2,144.^[4]

Notable residents[]

Thomas Browne, Archdeacon of Ipswich
Nicholas Peke, one of the Ipswich Martyrs
Thomas Steyning, Member of Parliament for Castle Rising in 1559.
Robert Groome, Archdeacon of Suffolk
Auckland Colvin, colonial administrator in India and Egypt
Patricia Highsmith, US Born Crime writer between 1964- 67^[5]

References[]

^ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 14 September 2015.
^ Open Domesday Online: Earl Soham
^ N.Pevsner, Suffolk, Buildings of England, 1974
^ "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 14 September 2015.
^ Lane, Harriet (26 July 2017). "A Fictional Patricia Highsmith as Strange as the Real One (Published 2017)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 24 January 2021.

External links[]

Media related to Earl Soham at Wikimedia Commons

Earl Soham Village Website

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