Mutford

Mutford

Mutford St Andrew
Mutford
 Mutford shown within Suffolk
Population 471 (2011)[1]
DistrictWaveney
Shire countySuffolk
RegionEast
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town Lowestoft
Postcode district NR33 8
EU Parliament East of England
List of places
UK
England
Suffolk

Coordinates: 52°26′N 1°38′E / 52.43°N 1.64°E / 52.43; 1.64

Mutford is a small village and civil parish located south-west of Lowestoft in the English county of Suffolk. The village is located between Lowestoft and Beccles in a rural area south of the A146 at Barnby. Nearby villages include Gisleham and Henstead. The village gave its name to the Half Hundred of Mutford which is named in the Domesday Book.

The village consists of a crossroads, and a few residential streets. The post office closed in 2013. The Village hall has a large area of land situated at the back with football matches played regularly. The mediaeval church of St Andrew is one of 38 existing round-tower churches in Suffolk and is a Grade I Listed Building. [2]

Sir Stanley Rous, former president of FIFA, was born in Mutford in 1895.[3] Also born in the village was Bill Crooks, manager of Eastwoodhill Arboretum, Ngatapa, Gisborne, New Zealand from 1967-1974.

References

  1. Civil Parish population 2011. Retrieved 2011-09-20.
  2. CHURCH OF ST ANDREW List entry Number: 1032081, English Heritage, Retrieved 2014-04-05.
  3. Pawson.A (2004) ‘Rous, Sir Stanley Ford (1895–1986)’, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press (online). Retrieved 2011-04-20.
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