Suffolk
Geography
Status:	Ceremonial & Non-metropolitan county
Region:	East of England[1]
Area: - Total - Admin. The ceremonial counties are areas of England that are appointed a Lord-Lieutenant, and are defined by the government as the Counties for the purposes of the Lieutenancies Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties are one of the four levels of Subdivisions of England used for the purposes of Local government outside Greater London The East of England is one of the nine official Regions of England. Surface area is the measure of how much exposed Area an object has council	Ranked 8th 3,801 km² / 1,467 square miles Ranked 7th
Admin HQ:	Ipswich
ISO 3166-2:	GB-SFK
ONS code:	42
NUTS 3:	UKH14
Demographics
Population: - Total (2006 est. This is a List of Ceremonial counties of England by Area. See also Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. This is a list of non-metropolitan counties of England by area Ipswich ( ˈɪpswɪtʃ is a Non-metropolitan district and the County town of Suffolk, England on the Estuary of the River Orwell ISO 3166-2GB is an ISO standard which defines Geocodes it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to the United Kingdom. The Office for National Statistics coding system is a hierarchical code used in the United Kingdom for tabulating Census and other statistical data The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, ( NUTS) for the French nomenclature d'unités territoriales statistiques, is a Geocode In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology ) - Density - Admin. The density of a material is defined as its Mass per unit Volume: \rho = \frac{m}{V} Different materials usually have different Council	Ranked 31st 702,100 185 / km² Ranked 13th
Ethnicity:	97. This is a List of Ceremonial counties of England by Population. This is a list of non-metropolitan counties of England by population. 2% White
Politics
Suffolk County Council http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/
Executive:	Conservative
Members of Parliament
Bob Blizzard (L) John Gummer (C) Michael Lord (C) Chris Mole (L) David Ruffley (C) Richard Spring (C) Tim Yeo (C)
Districts
Ipswich Suffolk Coastal Waveney Mid Suffolk Babergh St Edmundsbury Forest Heath

Suffolk (pronounced /ˈsʌfək/) is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Composition Graphical representation of the House of Commons This is a comparison of the party strengths in the British House of Commons Robert John 'Bob' Blizzard (born 31 May 1950 is a British Politician and currently the Labour Party Member of Parliament for Waveney The Labour Party is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the John Selwyn Gummer MP (born 26 November 1939) is a British politician and Conservative MP for Suffolk Coastal The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Sir Michael Nicholson Lord (born October 17, 1938, south Manchester) is a British politician and Conservative Member of Parliament The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Christopher David Mole, known as Chris Mole, (born 16 March 1958 Bromley) is the current Member of Parliament for Ipswich in eastern England The Labour Party is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the David Laurie Ruffley (born 18 April 1962 Bolton) is a politician in the United Kingdom. The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Richard John Grenville Spring (born 24 September 1946, South Africa) is a politician in the United Kingdom. The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Timothy Stephen Kenneth Yeo (born 20 March 1945 in Lewisham) is a British Conservative politician Member of Parliament The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Ipswich ( ˈɪpswɪtʃ is a Non-metropolitan district and the County town of Suffolk, England on the Estuary of the River Orwell Energy policy In May 2006, a report commissioned by British Gas showed that housing in Mid Suffolk produced the 15th highest average carbon emissions in the Towns and parishes in Babergh District Acton Aldham Alpheton Arwarton See also St Edmundsbury local elections Towns Mildenhall Newmarket Brandon Significant Villages A non-metropolitan county or shire county in England, is a county-level entity which is not a Metropolitan county. The historic counties of England are ancient subdivisions of England. East Anglia is often used as a shorthand for the Kingdom of the East Angles. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. Norfolk (ˈnɔrfək is a low-lying county in East Anglia, England, United Kingdom. History Cambridgeshire is noted as the site of some of the earliest known Neolithic permanent settlement in the United Kingdom, along with sites at Fengate Essex is a county in the East of England. The County town is Chelmsford, and the highest point of the county is Chrishall Common The North Sea lies to the east. The North Sea is a marginal, Epeiric sea of the Atlantic Ocean on the European Continental shelf. The county town is Ipswich, at 52°03′22″N, 1°08′59″E and other important towns include Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds. A county town is the 'capital' of a County in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland. Ipswich ( ˈɪpswɪtʃ is a Non-metropolitan district and the County town of Suffolk, England on the Estuary of the River Orwell Lowestoft (ˈləʊstɒft/ /ˈləʊstəf is a town in Suffolk, East Anglia, England, lying between the eastern edge of The Broads National Park Bury St Edmunds is a town in the county of Suffolk, England and formerly the County town of West Suffolk. Felixstowe is one of the largest container ports in Europe. Felixstowe is a seaside town on the North Sea coast of Suffolk, England. Containerization (or containerisation) is a system of Intermodal freight transport Cargo Transport using standard ISO containers ^[2]

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. A wetland is an area of Land consisting of Soil that is Saturated with Moisture, such as a Swamp, Marsh, or Bog In Geography, arable land (from Latin arare, to Plough) is an agricultural term meaning land that can be used for The Broads is a network of mostly navigable rivers and lakes (known locally as broads in the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. The Suffolk Coast and Heaths are an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Suffolk, England. An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB is an area of countryside with significant landscape value in England, Wales or Northern Ireland

History

Main article: History of Suffolk

Suffolk was part of the kingdom of East Anglia which was settled by the Angles in the 5th century. This article describes the history of Suffolk, the English county The Kingdom of the East Angles or Kingdom of East Anglia was one of the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. The Angles is a modern English word for a Germanic-speaking people who took their name from the cultural ancestral region of Angeln, a modern district located in

Suffolk was divided into separate Quarter Sessions divisions. The Courts of Quarter Sessions or Quarter Sessions were periodic courts held in each County and County borough in England and Wales until These were originally four in number, reduced to two in 1860: the eastern division being administered from Ipswich and the western from Bury St Edmunds. Ipswich ( ˈɪpswɪtʃ is a Non-metropolitan district and the County town of Suffolk, England on the Estuary of the River Orwell Bury St Edmunds is a town in the county of Suffolk, England and formerly the County town of West Suffolk. 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. East Suffolk, along with West Suffolk, was created in 1888 as an Administrative county of England. West Suffolk was an Administrative county of England created in 1889 from part of the county of Suffolk. The Local Government Act 1888 (51 & 52 Vict c 41 was passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1888 and established County councils and County borough County borough is a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (excluding Scotland) to refer to a Borough or a City

Under the Local Government Act 1972, East Suffolk, West Suffolk and Ipswich were merged to form a unified county of Suffolk on April 1, 1974. The Local Government Act 1972 (1972 c 70 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom, that reformed local government in England and Wales Events 527 - Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. This was divided into several local government districts: Babergh, Forest Heath, Ipswich, Mid Suffolk, St. Edmundsbury, Suffolk Coastal, Waveney. Non-metropolitan districts, or colloquially ' shire districts', are a type of local government district in England. Towns and parishes in Babergh District Acton Aldham Alpheton Arwarton Towns Mildenhall Newmarket Brandon Significant Villages Ipswich ( ˈɪpswɪtʃ is a Non-metropolitan district and the County town of Suffolk, England on the Estuary of the River Orwell Energy policy In May 2006, a report commissioned by British Gas showed that housing in Mid Suffolk produced the 15th highest average carbon emissions in the See also St Edmundsbury local elections This also saw a further part of land near Great Yarmouth become part of Norfolk. Great Yarmouth, often known to locals as Yarmouth, is a Coastal Town in Norfolk, England. As introduced into Parliament, the Local Government Bill would have included Newmarket and Haverhill into Cambridgeshire, with it being compensated by the inclusion of Colchester from Essex: these proposals were ultimately decided against. Haverhill is an industrial market town in the county of Suffolk, England, next to the borders of Essex and Cambridgeshire. Colchester ( /ˈkəʊltʃɛstə/ is a town and the largest settlement within the borough of Colchester, in Essex, England. Essex is a county in the East of England. The County town is Chelmsford, and the highest point of the county is Chrishall Common

The Department for Communities and Local Government has referred Ipswich Borough Council's bid to become a new unitary authority to the Boundary Committee. The Department for Communities and Local Government (branded as Communities and Local Government) is the United Kingdom government department for communities Ipswich ( ˈɪpswɪtʃ is a Non-metropolitan district and the County town of Suffolk, England on the Estuary of the River Orwell ^[3][4] The Boundary Committee will report back by the end of the year.

West Suffolk is, like nearby East Cambridgeshire, renowned for archaeological finds from the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. Archaeology The recent Fenland survey of archaeological finds mentions an enumeration of findings made between 1884 and 1994 in the region to the north Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from Greek grc ἀρχαιολογία archaiologia – grc ἀρχαῖος archaīos The Stone Age is a broad prehistoric time period during which Humans widely used stone for toolmaking The term Bronze Age refers to a period in human cultural development when the most advanced Metalworking (at least in systematic and widespread use included techniques for This article is about the archaeological period known as the Iron Age for the mythological Iron Age see Ages of Man. Bronze Age artefacts have been found in the area between Mildenhall and West Row, in Eriswell and in Lakenheath^[5]. Mildenhall is a small Market town and Civil parish in Suffolk, England Eriswell is a Village and Civil parish of Forest Heath in the English county of Suffolk. Lakenheath is a village in Suffolk, England It has around 8200 residents and is situated in the Forest Heath district of Suffolk close to the county boundaries Many bronze objects, such as swords, spear-heads, arrows, axes, 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. The axe, or ax, is an implement that has been used for millennia to shape split and cut Wood, Harvest timber, as a Weapon Bury St Edmunds is a town in the county of Suffolk, England and formerly the County town of West Suffolk. Other finds include traces of cremations and barrows. Cremation is the act of reducing a Corpse by burning, generally in a crematorium furnace or crematory fire A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a Mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves

Economy

The majority of agriculture in Suffolk is either arable or mixed. Agriculture refers to the production of goods through the growing of plants and fungi and the raising of domesticated Animals The study of agriculture Farm sizes vary from anything around 80 acres to over 8,000. Soil types vary from heavy clays through to light sands. Crops grown include winter wheat, winter barley, sugar beet, oil seed 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.

This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Suffolk at current basic prices published (pp. 240-253) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.

See also: Companies based in Suffolk

Well-known companies in Suffolk are Greene King and Branston Pickle in Bury St Edmunds. Greene King ( is a British Brewery established in 1799 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Branston is a well known United Kingdom brand of savoury foods Birds Eye have their largest UK factory in Lowestoft, where all their meat products and frozen vegetables come from. __FORCETOC__ Birds Eye is an international brand of Frozen foods such as Seafood, Meat and Vegetables. Huntley & Palmers biscuit company are now in Sudbury. Huntley & Palmers was a British firm of Biscuit makers based in Reading Berkshire. The UK horse racing industry is based in Newmarket. This article is about the sport For other uses see Horserace (drinking game or Horse race (politics. There are two 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. There are two Nuclear power stations located near the small fishing village of Sizewell in Suffolk, England. Sizewell is a small fishing village with a few holiday homes in the county of Suffolk, England. Leiston is a town in Suffolk, in the United Kingdom. It is situated near Saxmundham and Aldeburgh, about 2½ miles from the North Sea Bernard Matthews have some processing units in the county, specifically Holton. Bernard Matthews was founded by Bernard Trevor Matthews in 1950 This article is about the village also known as Holton St Peter Southwold is the home of Adnams Brewery. Southwold is a Seaside town in the Waveney district of Suffolk, East Anglia, England, at the mouth of the River Blyth Adnams PLC is a British Regional brewery in Southwold, Suffolk, England. Felixstowe is an important port, and is the largest container port in the United Kingdom. Felixstowe is a seaside town on the North Sea coast of Suffolk, England. Containerization (or containerisation) is a system of Intermodal freight transport Cargo Transport using standard ISO containers BT has its main research and development facility at Martlesham. BT Group plc (formerly British Telecommunications plc) which trades as BT (ˌbiːˈtiː bee tee) (previously known as British Telecom and still Martlesham is a village in Suffolk, England about two miles (3 km South-West of Woodbridge and East of Ipswich.

Geology, landscape and ecology

Much of Suffolk is low-lying on Eocene sand and clays. The Eocene epoch (558 ± 02 - 339 ± 01 Ma) is a major division of the Geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Palaeogene period in Sand is a naturally occurring Granular material composed of finely divided rock and Mineral particles Clay is a naturally occurring material composed primarily of fine-grained Minerals which show plasticity through a variable range of Water content, and These rocks are relatively unresistant and on the coast are eroded rapidly. Geological resistance is a measure of how well Minerals resist erosive factors and is primarily based on hardness, Chemical reactivity and cohesion Erosion is the carrying away or displacement of solids ( Sediment, Soil, rock and other particles usually by the agents of currents such as wind Coastal defences have been used to protect several towns, but several cliff-top houses have been lost to coastal erosion in the past. In some jurisdictions the terms sea defense and coastal protection are used to mean respectively defence against flooding and erosion

The west of the county lies on more resistant Cretaceous Chalk. The Cretaceous (kriːˈteɪʃəs, usually abbreviated 'K' for its German translation "Kreide" is a geologic period and system, reaching from the end of Chalk (ʧɔːk is a soft white porous Sedimentary rock, a form of Limestone composed of the Mineral Calcite. 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. KentGeologyWealdenDomeSimplesvg|thumb|The Wealden Anticline]] The Chalk Formation of Southern England is a system of Chalk Downland in Dorset ( (or archaically, Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast Dover is a town and major ferry port in the county of Kent, England. 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). At 128 m Great Wood Hill is the highest point in the Newmarket Ridge and Suffolk. The Newmarket Ridge is a ridge of low Chalk hills extending for over 20 miles from Bishop's Stortford in Hertfordshire to Bury St Edmunds in The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit

Demographics

The Census 2001 Suffolk recorded a population of 668,548. A nationwide Census, commonly known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday 29 April 2001 In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology Between 1981 and 2001 the population of the county grew by 13%, with the district of Mid Suffolk growing fastest at 25%. Energy policy In May 2006, a report commissioned by British Gas showed that housing in Mid Suffolk produced the 15th highest average carbon emissions in the The population growth is due largely to migration rather than natural increase. Human migration denotes any movement by Humans from one locality to another sometimes over long distances or 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.

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). Yorkshire is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in Great Britain. Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in the east of England.

Cities, towns and villages

The agreed-upon number of established communities in Suffolk varies greatly because of the large number of the all but non-existent hamlets which may consist of just a single farm and a deconsecrated church: remnants of wealthy communities, some dating back to the early days of the Christian era. Suffolk 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. Bury St Edmunds is a town in the county of Suffolk, England and formerly the County town of West Suffolk. Magna Carta ( Latin for Great Charter, literally " Great Paper " also called Magna Carta Libertatum ( Great Charter of Freedoms Clare is a small Town on the north bank of the River Stour in Suffolk, England.

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 c. 7000BC, (Grimes Graves, Norfolk - a 5000 y/o flint mine) with Roman settlements Lakenheath, Long Melford, later Bronze and Saxon settlements. Grimes Graves is a large Neolithic Flint mining complex near Brandon in England close to the border between Norfolk and Lakenheath is a village in Suffolk, England It has around 8200 residents and is situated in the Forest Heath district of Suffolk close to the county boundaries Long Melford (or Melford, as it is known locally is a large village and Civil parish in the county of Suffolk, England Sutton Hoo: burial ground of the Anglo-Saxon pagan kings of East Anglia. Sutton Hoo near Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, is the site of two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries

For a full list of settlements see the List of places in Suffolk. This is a list of cities towns and villages in the ceremonial county of Suffolk, England

Notable people from Suffolk

Gainsborough's Mr and Mrs Andrews (1748-49), in the National Gallery in London, depicts in the background the Suffolk landscape of his time. Mr and Mrs Andrews ( 1750) is an Oil painting by Thomas Gainsborough.

See also: People from Suffolk

In the arts, Suffolk is noted for having been the home to two of England's best regarded painters, Thomas Gainsborough and John Constable - the Stour Valley area is branded as "Constable Country" - and one of its most noted composers, Benjamin Britten. Painting (pān'tīng in Art, is the practice of applying Color to a Surface (support base such as e Thomas Gainsborough (christened 14 May 1727 &ndash died 2 August 1788 was one of the most famous portrait and landscape painters of 18th century Britain. John Constable ( 11 June 1776 &ndash 31 March 1837 A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance Edward Benjamin Britten Baron Britten, OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976 was an English Composer, conductor, 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, writer and editor Ronald Blythe, actors Ralph Fiennes and Bob Hoskins, musician and record producer Brian Eno and Dani Filth, singer of the Suffolk-based black metal group, Cradle of Filth. A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing Cartoons Traditionally much of this work was and still is humorous and is intended primarily for entertainment purposes Ronald "Carl" Giles ( September 29, 1916 – August 28, 1995) often referred to simply as Giles, was a cartoonist most famous Ipswich ( ˈɪpswɪtʃ is a Non-metropolitan district and the County town of Suffolk, England on the Estuary of the River Orwell A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" Robert Bloomfield ( December 3, 1766 - August 19, 1823) was an English Poet. A writer is anyone who creates a written work although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally as well as those who have written in many different forms A literary editor is an editor in a Newspaper or similar publication who deals with aspects concerning Literature and Books especially reviews Ronald Blythe (born 1922 is an English writer and editor best known in his native England for his Akenfield Portrait of an English Village (1969 a portrait of agricultural Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes ( "rafe fines" born 22 December 1962) is a British Actor. Robert William "Bob" Hoskins Jr (born 26 October 1942 is an English Actor, known for playing Cockney rough diamonds and gangsters and In the Music industry, a record producer or music producer has many roles among them controlling the recording sessions coaching and guiding the musicians organizing Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno (born 15 May 1948 commonly known as Brian Eno (ˈiːnoʊ is an English Musician, producer Dani Filth (born Daniel Lloyd Davey) is the Lyricist, Vocalist and founding member of the British Extreme metal band Cradle of Filth Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos shrieked vocals highly distorted guitars played with Tremolo picking, Hip-hop DJ Tim Westwood is originally from Suffolk and the influential DJ and radio presenter John Peel made the county his home. Hip hop is a cultural movement which developed in New York City in the 1970s primarily among African Americans and Latinos. A disc jockey (also known as DJ or deejay) is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience Tim Westwood (born 3 October 1957 is an English DJ and Presenter of Radio and Television. A disc jockey (also known as DJ or deejay) is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience A radio personality (also known as a radio host or a radio presenter) is a person with an on-air position in radio broadcasting John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004 known professionally as John Peel, was an English Disc jockey, radio

Suffolk's contributions to sport include Formula 1 magnate Bernie Ecclestone and England footballers Terry Butcher, Kieron Dyer and Matthew Upson. Bernard Charles "Bernie" Ecclestone (born 28 October 1930 near Bungay Suffolk, England) is the president and CEO of The English national football team represents England in international football and is controlled by The Football Association, the governing body for football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered Terence Ian "Terry" Butcher (born 28 December 1958 in Singapore) is an English football manager who is currently Kieron Courtney Dyer (born 29 December 1978 in Ipswich, England) is an English footballer, of Antiguan descent Matthew James Upson, (born 18 April 1979 in Hartismere, Suffolk) is an English football player who currently plays for West Ham United. Due to Newmarket being the centre of British horseracing many jockeys have settled in the county, including Lester Piggott and Frankie Dettori. This article is about the sport For other uses see Horserace (drinking game or Horse race (politics. In Sport, a jockey is one who rides Horses in Horse racing or steeplechase racing primarily as a profession Lester Keith Piggott (born 5 November 1935) is a retired English Jockey, popularly known as "The Long Fellow" Lanfranco "Frankie" Dettori, MBE (born December 15, 1970 in Milan) is a Thoroughbred Race horse Jockey

Significant ecclesiastical figures from Suffolk include former Archbishop of Canterbury, Simon Sudbury, King of East Anglia and Christian martyr St Edmund (after whom the town of Bury St Edmunds is named), Tudor Catholic cardinal 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. The Archbishop of Canterbury is the chief bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the Simon Theobald or Simon of Sudbury (died 14 June 1381 was an Archbishop of Canterbury (1375&ndash1381 as well as Bishop of London. The term martyr ( Greek μάρτυς martys "witness" is most commonly used today to describe an individual who sacrifices their life (or personal freedom For the 13th century Archbishop see St Edmund of Abingdon. Edmund the Martyr (841&ndash 20 November 869) was a Bury St Edmunds is a town in the county of Suffolk, England and formerly the County town of West Suffolk. Social and economic revolution Following the Black Death Plagues and the agricultural depression of the late 14th century population growth Catholic is an Adjective derived from the Greek adjective '' / 'katholikos' meaning "whole" or "complete". A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official usually a bishop, of the Catholic Church. Thomas Cardinal Wolsey (c1470–1471 – November 28 or November 29 1530 who was born in Ipswich Suffolk England was an English Statesman and a cardinal John Lydgate of Bury (c 1370 – c 1451 was a Monk and Poet, born in Lidgate Suffolk, England. Suffragette is a term originally coined by the Daily Mail newspaper as a derogatory label for the more radical and Militant members of the Dame Millicent Fawcett GBE LLD ( June 11, 1847 &ndash August 5, 1929) was an English Suffragist First Voyage On 27 September 1825 Beagle docked at Woolwich for repairs and fitted out for her new duties at a total cost of £5913 Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy ( 5 July 1805 – 30 April 1865) achieved lasting fame as the captain of HMS ''Beagle'' Matthew Hopkins ( ca 1620 - 1647 was an English Witchhunter whose career flourished in the time of the English Civil War. A physician, medical practitioner or medical doctor who practices Medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human Health A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government Dr Elizabeth Garrett Anderson LSA, MD ( June 9 1836 &ndash December 17 1917) was an English Physician Charity leader Sue Ryder settled in Suffolk and based her charity in Cavendish. The definition of charitable organization, and of charity varies according to the country and in some instances the region of the country in which the charitable organization operates Margaret Susan Cheshire Baroness Ryder of Warsaw and Baroness Cheshire, CMG, OBE ( 3 July 1923 &ndash 2 November 2000 Cavendish' is a Village and Civil parish in the Stour Valley in Suffolk, England.

Education

Primary and Secondary

See also List of schools in Suffolk

Suffolk has a comprehensive education system with fourteen independent schools. The following is a partial list of currently operating Schools in the County of Suffolk in England. A comprehensive school is a Secondary school and State school for children from the age of 11 to at least 16 that does not select children on the basis of academic An independent school is a school which is not dependent upon national or local Government for financing its operation and is instead operated by tuition charges gifts and Unusually for the UK, most of Suffolk has a 3-tier school system in place with Primary Schools (ages 5-9), Middle Schools (ages 9-13) and Upper Schools (ages 13-16). See also Primary education A primary school (from French école primaire) is an institution where children receive the first stage of Compulsory Since the Education Act 1964 it has been possible for local authorities in England and Wales to open Middle schools as part of a Three-tier 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. ^[10] The exception to this is in the Ipswich district and some in the districts of Suffolk Coastal, Mid Suffolk, and Babergh where the more common have 11-16 age schools are in place. All of the county's Upper schools have a sixth form as there are no specific sixth form colleges (though most further education colleges in the county offer A-level courses). The sixth form, in the English, Welsh and Northern Irish education systems Commonwealth West Indian countries such as Barbados, Belize Further education (often abbreviated "FE" is Post-secondary Education (in addition to that received at Secondary school) that is distinct from The A-level, short for Advanced Level, is a General Certificate of Education qualification in England, Northern Ireland and Wales, 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.

Tertiary

University Campus Suffolk, a collaboration between the University of Essex, the University of East Anglia, partner colleges and local government, began accepting its first students in September 2007. University Campus Suffolk is an educational institution located in the county of Suffolk, United Kingdom that welcomed its first students in September 2007 The University of Essex is a British Campus university located near the town of Colchester, England The University of East Anglia is a campus-based University located in Norwich, England, and founded in 1963 The main Ipswich based waterfront campus building is due for completion in September 2008 ^[11]. Prior to this Suffolk was one of the few English counties not to contain a University campus.

Sport

Football

The county's sole professional football club is Ipswich Town. Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered PLEASE NOTE This section is the introduction Please do not add too much detail here Formed in 1878, the club were Football League champions in 1961–62, FA Cup winners in 1977–78 and UEFA Cup winners in 1980–81. The Football League First Division was the highest division of The Football League between 1993 and 2004 and the highest division of English football overall between The following are the Football (soccer events of the year 1962 throughout the world The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football, run by and named after The following are the Football (soccer events of the year 1978 throughout the world The UEFA Cup is a football competition for European club teams organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA. The following are the Football (soccer events of the year 1981 throughout the world ^[12] Ipswich Town currently play in the Football League Championship - the next highest ranked teams in Suffolk are Bury Town and A.F.C. Sudbury of the Isthmian League Division One North. The Football League Championship (often referred to as The Championship for short or the Coca-Cola Football League Championship for sponsorship reasons Bury Town Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. AFC Sudbury is an English semi-professional football club from Sudbury Suffolk. History A previous First Division North (note the slightly different name existed for two seasons from 2002-03 till 2003-04.

Horse racing

The town of Newmarket is the is the headquarters of British horseracing - home to the largest cluster of training yards in the country, many key horse racing organisations and Newmarket Racecourse. Horse racing is a popular Spectator sport in Great Britain, and Gambling on horseraces is the cornerstone of the British betting industry The town of Newmarket, in Suffolk, England, is the headquarters of British horseracing, home to the largest cluster of training yards in the country and Point to point racing takes place at Higham and Ampton. Higham is a village and Civil parish in Suffolk, England. Located on the eastern bank of the River Brett (which defines the parish's western Ampton is a village and Civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk, England, about five miles north of Bury St Edmunds ^[13]

Speedway

Speedway racing has been staged in Suffolk since at least the 1950s, following the construction of the Foxhall Stadium, just outside Ipswich, home of the Ipswich Witches. Foxhall Stadium is a Stock car racing stadium located in Foxhall near Ipswich. The Ipswich Witches are a British speedway club based at the Foxhall Stadium near Ipswich, Suffolk. The Witches are currently members of the Speedway Elite League, the UK's top division. The Elite League is the top division of Speedway league competition in the United Kingdom and is goverened by the Speedway Control Board (SCB in conjunction Speedway Premier League team Mildenhall Fen Tigers are also from Suffolk. The Premier League is the second division of Speedway in the United Kingdom and goverened by the Speedway Control Board (SCB in conjunction with the The Mildenhall Fen Tigers are a British speedway team currently riding in the Premier League.

Suffolk in popular culture

A TV series about a British antiques dealer, Lovejoy, was filmed in various locations in Suffolk. Lovejoy is a series of Picaresque novels by John Grant (under the Pen name Jonathan Gash about the adventures of Lovejoy a British ^[14] The reality TV Series Space Cadets was filmed in Rendlesham Forest, although the producers pretended to the participants that they were in Russia. Reality television is a genre of Television programming which presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations documents actual events and usually features ordinary Space Cadets was a British Television program made by Zeppotron (a division of Endemol UK) for Channel 4. Rendlesham Forest is a 1500-hectare mixed woodland in Suffolk owned by the Forestry Commission with Recreation facilities for walkers cyclists and campers Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending

See also

• List of places of interest in Suffolk
• Rendlesham Forest Incident
• Flag of Suffolk
• Suffolk Youth Orchestra

References

External links

• Suffolk Observatory - Suffolk's Vital Statistics
• Promoting Suffolk
• Tourism in Suffolk
• Suffolk County Council
• BBC Suffolk
• Visit Suffolk Coast
• Suffolk Churches
• Photos of Suffolk's agriculture
• Pronunciation of Suffolk place names