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WikiPedia Information About SuffolkInformation from the WikiPedia.Com Website for Suffolk/_TheTownGuide/Index_Layout_Leaders_wiki_Process.xsl {{Otheruses}} {{Infobox England county name = Suffolk image = Image:Arms of Suffolk.svg 100px motto = Guide Our Endeavour map = Image:EnglandSuffolk.png status = Ceremonial counties of England Ceremonial & Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England Non-metropolitan county origin = region = East of England[http://ec. europa.eu/comm/eurostat/ramon/nuts/codelist_en.cfm?list=nuts Hierarchical list of the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics and the statistical regions of Europe] The European Commission, Statistical Office of the European Communities (retrieved 6 January 2008) arearank = List of Ceremonial counties of England by Area Ranked 8th area_km2 = 3801 adminarearank = List of Administrative shire counties of England by Area Ranked 7th adminarea_km2 = adminhq = Ipswich iso = GB-SFK ons = 42 nutscode = nuts3 = UKH14 poprank = {{English cerem counties RNK=Suffolk}} popestdate = pop = {{English cerem counties POP=Suffolk}} density_km2 = {{English cerem counties DEN=Suffolk}} adminpoprank = List of non-metropolitan counties of England by population Ranked {{English admin counties RNK=Suffolk}} adminpop = ethnicity = 97ǎ% White council = Suffolk County Council [http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/ www.suffolk.gov.uk] mps = Bob Blizzard Labour Party (UK) (L) John Gummer Conservative Party (UK) (C) Michael Lord Conservative Party (UK) (C) Chris Mole Labour Party (UK) (L) David Ruffley Conservative Party (UK) (C) Richard Spring Conservative Party (UK) (C) Tim Yeo Conservative Party (UK) (C) subdivname = Districts subdivmap = Image:SuffolkNumbered.png subdivs = #Ipswich #Suffolk Coastal #Waveney #Mid Suffolk #Babergh #St Edmundsbury (borough) St Edmundsbury #Forest Heath }} '''Suffolk''' ({{pronEng 's?f?k}}) is a Non-metropolitan counties of England non-metropolitan county of Historic counties of England historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowestoft, Bury St Edmunds and Felixstowe, one of the largest Containerization container ports in Europe.[http://www.dft.gov.uk/ pgr/shippingports/ports/ir/felixstowesouth/felixstowesouthreconfigurati4953?page=12 Felixstowe South reconfiguration inspector's report] Department for Transport The county is low-lying with few hills, and is largely wetland habitat and arable land with the wetlands of The Broads in the North. The Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB Suffolk Coast and Heaths are an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. HistoryHistory of Suffolk}} AdministrationThese were originally four in number, reduced to two in 1860, the eastern division being administered from Ipswich and the western from Bury St Edmunds. The two divisions were made separate administrative counties as East Suffolk and West Suffolk under the Local Government Act 1888, with Ipswich becoming a county borough. A few Essex parishes were also added to Suffolk: Ballingdon-with-Brundon, and parts of Haverhill, Suffolk Haverhill and Kedington. Under the Local Government Act 1972, East Suffolk, West Suffolk and Ipswich were merged to form a unified county of Suffolk on 1 April 1974. This was divided into several non-metropolitan district local government districts: Babergh, Forest Heath, Ipswich, Mid Suffolk, St. Edmundsbury, Suffolk Coastal, and Waveney. This Act also transferred some land near Great Yarmouth to Norfolk. As introduced in Parliament, the Local Government Bill would have transferred Newmarket, Suffolk Newmarket and Haverhill to Cambridgeshire, but Colchester would have been transferred in from Essex; but those changes were not included in Act as passed. In 2007 the Department for Communities and Local Government referred Ipswich Ipswich Borough Council's bid to become a new unitary authority to the Boundary Committee for England Boundary Committee.[http://www.unitaryipswich.com/ Unitary Ipswich] - Ipswich's bid for unitary status[http ://www.communities.gov.uk/index.asp?id=1509022 Communities and Local Government] - Proposals for future unitary structures: Stakeholder consultation The Boundary Committee consulted local bodies and reported in favour of the proposal. It was not, however, approved by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. The Boundary Committee is currently reviewing local government in the county, which may result in the splitting of Suffolk into two unitary authorities - Ipswich & Felixstowe and Rural Suffolk.{{cite web url= http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/bo undary-reviews/all-reviews/eastern/suffolk/suffolk-structural-review title=Suffolk structural review publisher=The Electroal Commission accessdate=2009-09-21}} Archaeologyarchaeological finds from the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. Bronze Age artefacts have been found in the area between Mildenhall, Suffolk Mildenhall and West Row, in Eriswell and in Lakenheath{{cite book title= Fenland survey : an essay in landscape and persistence / David Hall and John Coles first=David last=Hall origdate=1994 publisher=London; English Heritage isbn=1-85074-477-7 }}, p. 81-88. Many bronze objects, such as swords, spearheads, arrows, axes, axe palstaves, knives, daggers, rapiers, armour, decorative equipment (in particular for horses) and fragments of sheet bronze, are entrusted to the Moyse's Hall Museum in Bury St Edmunds. Other finds include traces of cremations and tumulus barrows. In the East of the county is Sutton Hoo, the site of one of England's most signicant Anglo-Saxon archæological finds; a ship burial containing a collection of treasures including a Sword of State, gold and silver bowls and jewellery and a lyre. EconomyFarm sizes vary from anything around 80 acres (32 hectares) to over 8,000. Soil types vary from heavy clays through to light sands. Crops grown include winter wheat, winter barley, sugar beet, oilseed rape, winter and spring beans and linseed, although smaller areas of rye and oats can be found in lighter areas along with a variety of vegetables. The continuing importance of agriculture in the county is reflected in the Suffolk Show, which is held annually in May at Ipswich. Although latterly somewhat changed in nature, this remains primarily an agricultural show. This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Suffolk at current basic prices [http://ww w.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_economy/RegionalGVA.pdf published] (pp. 240–253) by ''Office for National Statistics'' with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling. { class="wikitable" - ! Year Regional Gross Value AddedComponents may not sum to totals due to rounding Agricultureincludes hunting and forestry Industryincludes energy and construction Servicesincludes financial intermediation services indirectly measured - 1995 '''7,113''' 391 2,449 4,273 - 2000 '''8,096''' 259 2,589 5,248 - 2003 '''9,456''' 270 2,602 6,583 } :''See also: :Category:Companies based in Suffolk Companies based in Suffolk'' Well-known companies in Suffolk include Greene King Brewery Greene King and Branston (food) Branston Pickle in Bury St Edmunds. Birds Eye have their largest UK factory in Lowestoft, where all their meat products and frozen vegetables come from. Huntley & Palmers biscuit company are now in Sudbury. The UK horse racing industry is based in Newmarket. There are two United States Air Force USAF bases in the west of the county close to the A11. Sizewell B nuclear power station is at Sizewell on the coast near Leiston. Bernard Matthews have some processing units in the county, specifically Holton, Suffolk Holton. Southwold is the home of Adnams Brewery. The Port of Felixstowe is the largest containerization container port in the United Kingdom. Other ports, are Port of Lowestoft and port of Ipswich run by Associated British Ports. BT Group plc BT has its main research and development facility at Martlesham Heath. Geology, landscape and ecologyThese rocks are relatively resistance (geology) unresistant and the coast is erosion eroding rapidly. Coastal defences have been used to protect several towns, but several cliff-top houses have been lost to coastal erosion in the past. The continuing protection of the coastline and the estuaries, including the Blyth, Alde and Deben, is, in 2008, a matter of considerable discussion. [http://www.eadt.co. uk/content/eadt/news/story.aspx?brand=EADOnlin e&category=News&tBrand=EADOnline&tCategory=News&itemid=IPED28%20Oct%202008%2022%3A35%3A47%3A443 "Sea Defences to be saved" East Anglian Daily Times - 29th October 2008] The coastal strip to the East contains an area of heathland known as "The Sandlings" which runs almost the full length of the coastline. [http://www.suffolkcoastandheaths.org/text.asp?PageId=48 Suffolk Coast and Heaths] The west of the county lies on more resistant Cretaceous Chalk. This chalk is the north-eastern extreme of the Southern England Chalk Formation that stretches from Dorset in the south west to Dover in the south east. The Chalk is less easily eroded so forms the only significant hills in the county. The highest point of the county is Great Wood Hill, the highest point of the Newmarket Ridge, near the village of Rede which reaches 128 m (420 ft). DemographicsCensus 2001 Suffolk recorded a population of 668,55 3[http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/Environment/FactsAndFigures/2001Census/ Suffolk Profile (2001 Census)]. Between 1981 and 2001 the population of the county grew by 13%, with the district of Mid Suffolk growing fastest at 25%. The population growth is due largely to Human migration migration rather than natural increase. There is a very low population between the ages of 15 and 29 as the county has few large towns and institutions of higher education, though the 15-to-29 population in Ipswich is average. There is a larger population over the age of 35, and a larger than average retired population. Historically, the county's population have mostly been employed as agricultural workers. An 1835 survey showed Suffolk to have 4,526 occupiers of land employing labourers, 1,121 occupiers not employing labourers, 33,040 labourers employed in agriculture, 676 employed in manufacture, 18,167 employed in retail trade or handicraft, 2,228 'capitalists, bankers etc', 5,336 labourers (non-agricultural), 4,940 other males aged over 20, 2,032 male servants and 11,483 female servants.'The British Almanac' - 1835 The same publication records the total population of the county at 296,304. Most English counties have nicknames for people from that county, such as a Tyke from Yorkshire and a Yellowbelly from Lincolnshire; the traditional nickname for people from Suffolk is 'Suffolk Fair-Maids', or 'Silly Suffolk', referring respectively to the supposed beauty of its female inhabitants in the Middle Ages, and to the long history of Christianity in the county and its many fine churches (from Anglo-Saxon ''selige'', originally meaning holy).{{Citation needed date=January 2010}} Cities, towns and villagesSuffolk encompasses one of the most ancient regions of the UK: A monastery in Bury St. Edmunds founded in 630AD, plotting of Magna Carta in 1215; the oldest documented structural element of a still inhabited dwelling in Britain found in Clare, Suffolk Clare. This comparatively recent evidence is but a coda to the widespread settlement in the region shown by earlier archaeological evidence of Mesolithic man as far back as cBC, (Grimes Graves, Norfolk - a 5000 y/o flint mine) with Roman settlements Lakenheath, Long Melford, later Bronze and Saxon settlements. Sutton Hoo: burial ground of the Anglo-Saxon pagan kings of East Anglia. :''For a full list of settlements see the List of places in Suffolk.'' Notable people from Suffolkthumb left 300px Gainsborough's ''Mr and Mrs Andrews'' (1748-49), in the National Gallery, London National Gallery in London, depicts in the background the Suffolk landscape of his time. :''See also: :Category:People from Suffolk People from Suffolk'' In the arts, Suffolk is noted for having been the home to two of England's best regarded Painting painters, Thomas Gainsborough{{cite web publisher = Gainsborough's House title= Biography url=http://www.gainsborough.org/tg/biography.htm accessdate=2008-10-30}} and John Constable - the Stour Valley area is branded as "Constable Country"{{cite web url=http://www.nationaltrust.org.u k/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-flatfordbridgecottage/w-flatfordbridgecottage-walk.htm title=Constable Country walk publisher=National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty The National Trust accessdate=2008-10-30}} - and one of its most noted composers, Benjamin Britten.{{cite web ur l=http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/brittenb2.shtml title=Intervews: Benjamin Britten 1913 - 1976 publisher=BBC Four online accessdate=2008-10-30}} Other artists of note from Suffolk include the cartoonist Carl Giles (a bronze statue of his character "Grandma" to commemorate this is located in Ipswich town centre), poet Robert Bloomfield,{{cite web url=http://www.gutenberg. org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=89429&pageno=37 title=A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature first=John W. last=Cousin publisher=Project Gutenberg accessdate=2008-10-30}} writer and Literary editor editor Ronald Blythe, actors Ralph Fiennes and Bob Hoskins, musician and record producer Brian Eno and Dani Filth, singer of the Suffolk-based extreme metal group, Cradle of Filth. Hip-hop DJ Tim Westwood is originally from Suffolk and the influential DJ and radio presenter John Peel made the county his home.{{cite web url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news /uknews/1532070/John-Peel-leaves-his-wife-andpound1Ǒm,-oh,-and-25,000-records.html title=John Peel leaves his wife £1Ǒm, oh, and 25,000 records publisher=''The Daily Telegraph'' first=Adam last=Lusher date=2006-10-21 accessdate=2008-11-14}} Suffolk's contributions to sport include Formula One magnate Bernie Ecclestone and England national football team England football (soccer) footballers Terry Butcher, Kieron Dyer and Matthew Upson. Due to Newmarket, Suffolk Newmarket being the centre of British horseracing many jockeys have settled in the county, including Lester Piggott and Frankie Dettori. Significant ecclesiastical figures from Suffolk include former Archbishop of Canterbury, Simon Sudbury, Tudor period Tudor Catholic Cardinal (Catholicism) cardinal Thomas Cardinal Wolsey Thomas Wolsey, and author, poet and Benedictine monk John Lydgate Other significant persons from Suffolk include the Suffragette, Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, captain of ''HMS Beagle'', Robert FitzRoy, Witch-finder General Matthew Hopkins and both Britain's first female physician and mayor, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. charitable organization Charity leader Sue Ryder settled in Suffolk and based her charity in Cavendish, Suffolk Cavendish. St EdmundSt Edmund was the patron saint of England until he was replaced by St George in the thirteenth century. 2006 saw the failure of a campaign to have St Edmund named as the patron saint of England, but in 2007 he was named patron saint of Suffolk, with St Edmund's Day falling on 20 November. His Flag of Suffolk flag will be flown in Suffolk on that day. [http://www.eadt. co.uk/content/eadt/news/story.aspx?brand=EA DOnline&category=News&tBrand=EADOnline&tCategory= news&itemid=IPED22%20Apr%202007%2017%3A39%3A06%3A123 "St. Edmund will be Suffolk's patron saint" East Anglian Daily Times 23rd April 2007] EducationPrimary and SecondaryList of schools in Suffolk}} Suffolk has a comprehensive education system with fourteen independent schools. Unusually for the UK, most of Suffolk has a Three-tier education 3-tier school system in place with Primary Schools (ages 5–9), Middle Schools in England Middle Schools (ages 9–13) and Upper Schools (ages 13–16). However, a 2006 Suffolk County Council study has concluded that Suffolk should move to the 2-tier school system used in the majority of the UK. [http://www.sudburytoday 6co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=850&ArticleID=1912030 "Middle Schools Under Threat" Suffolk Free Press - Dec 2006] The exception to this is in the Ipswich district and parts of the districts of Suffolk Coastal, Mid Suffolk, and Babergh, where the more common 11-16 age schools are in place. All of the county's Upper schools have a sixth form as there are at present (2008) no specific sixth form colleges (though most further education colleges in the county offer A-level courses). In terms of school population, Suffolk's individual schools are large with the Ipswich district with the largest school population and Forest Heath the smallest, with just two schools. The Royal Hospital School near Ipswich, is the largest independent boarding school in Suffolk. TertiaryThe main Ipswich based waterfront campus building is due for completion in September 2 008.[http://www.ucs.ac.uk/prospectus/campuses.asp University Campus Suffolk - Ipswich] Prior to this Suffolk was one of the few English counties not to contain a University campus. CultureSport=Footballfootball club is Ipswich Town F.C. Ipswich Town. Formed in 1878, the club were Football League First Division Football League champions in 1962 in football (soccer) 1961–62, FA Cup winners in 1978 in football (soccer) 1977–78 and UEFA Cup winners in 1981 in football (soccer) 1980–81.{{Cite web url = http://web 6archive.org/web/20051213211801/www.itfc 6premiumtv.co.uk/page/HistoryDetail/0,,10272~347323,00.html title = Club honours accessdate = 2008-04-14 publisher = Ipswich Town F.C. }} Ipswich Town currently play in the Football League Championship - the next highest ranked teams in Suffolk are Bury Town F.C. Bury Town and A.F.C. Sudbury AFC Sudbury of the Southern Football League Division One Midlands Southern League Division One Midlands, and Lowestoft Town F.C. Lowestoft Town in Isthmian League Division One North. =Horse racingNewmarket is the headquarters of Horseracing in Great Britain British horseracing - home to the largest cluster of training yards in the country, many key horse racing organisations, including the National Stud,{{cite web url=http://www.suffolktouristguide.com/ title=Suffolk Tourism publisher=www.suffolktouristguide.com accessdate=2009-02-02}} and Newmarket Racecourse. Tattersalls bloodstock auctioneers and the National Horseracing Museum are also in the town. Point to point (steeplechase) Point to point racing takes place at Higham, Babergh Higham and Ampton.{{cite web url=http://www.pointingea.com/courses/courses.htm title=Courses publisher=www.pointingea.com accessdate=2008-04-14}} =SpeedwayThe Witches are currently members of the Speedway Elite League, the UK's top division. Speedway Premier League team Mildenhall Fen Tigers are also from Suffolk. =CricketSuffolk C.C.C. compete in the Eastern Division of the Minor Counties Cricket Championship Minor Counties Championship.{{cite web url=http://uk.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/NATIONAL/ENG/MINOR/MCCA/ title=Minor Counties Cricket Association publisher CricinfoArtsSuffolk in popular culture |
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