Great Glemham
Great Glemham is a village and a civil parish in the East Suffolk District, in the English county of Suffolk. The civil parish had a population of 224 at the 2011 Census.[1] It is a mile and a half from the A12 road. Great Glemham has a pub - The Crown Inn (the interior of which was used as a film location for the comedy series Detectorists), a church and a village hall. It is located between the towns of Framlingham and Saxmundham.
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Area | 7.77 km2 (3.00 sq mi) |
Population | 224 (2011) |
• Density | 29/km2 (75/sq mi) |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Woodbridge |
Postcode district | IP13 |
Dialling code | 01728 |
Police | Suffolk |
Fire | Suffolk |
Ambulance | East of England |
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The place-name 'Glemham' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Gl(i)emham and Glaimham. Eilert Ekwall comments: "The first element of the names is possibly Old English glēam 'merriment'... Glem, river-name, is no doubt a back-formation." By analogy with Glandford in Norfolk, 'Glemham' could mean 'village where sports were held'.[2]
Great Glemham House, the seat of the Earls of Cranbrook, is nearby.
Notable residents
- Ezekiel Blomfield (1778-1818), Congregational minister, author and compiler of religious works and works on natural history.
- Spencer Horsey de Horsey (1790-1860), Tory politician, Member of Parliament for Aldeburgh, Orford, and Newcastle-under-Lyme
- Robert Meadows White (1798–1865), clergyman and academic, holding the office of Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University
- Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 5th Earl of Cranbrook (1933- ), zoologist, biologist, naturalist and peer.
- Caroline, Countess of Cranbrook (1935- ), English aristocrat and campaigner on food quality issues
References
- "Great Glemham - Nomis - Official Labour Market Statistics". www.nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
- Ekwall, Eilert. The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (Fourth ed.). Oxford. pp. 197–198. ISBN 0-19-869103-3. OCLC 400936.