St Mary’s Church Wherstead Suffolk

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Wherstead is a village and a civil parish located in the county of Suffolk, England. Wherstead village lies 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Ipswich on the Shotley peninsula. It is in the Belstead Brook electoral division of Suffolk County Council. The Church of St Mary, Wherstead, is an Anglican church situated on a hill top site occupied by a church since 1086. It is currently managed by the Two Rivers Benefice, which is composed of the Parishes of Stutton, Holbrook, Woolverstone and Freston, as well as Wherstead.
St Mary’s Church is situated on a private farm road. The church boasts magnificent views of the river Orwell. There has been a church on this site from as early as 1086. The Church building was completely restored at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Foster Barham Zincke was vicar of St Mary, Wherstead when he wrote Materials for the History of W. herstead first published as a series of articles in the Suffolk Chronicle, which were later gathered into book form. Following the publication of the First Edition, in 1887. The subsequent Second Edition featured additional material gathered in Part II: Wherstead in Domesday.
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