Flowton
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Flowton is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England, with a population of 117 people. The name 'Flowton' originally derives from the word 'Flocctun', meaning a flock of sheep or a sheep farm. The parish is located around six miles north west of Ipswich, which is the county town of Suffolk. Flowton contains the hamlet of Flowton Brook, and consists of rural farmland accompanied by scattered farm houses and a few newer builds situated nearby the parish church of 'St Mary's'. In the 1870s, Flowton was described as:
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Within Vinony's link graph, Flowton is referenced by 23 other articles, and connects out to England, list of sovereign states and geographic coordinate system.
It sits within the topics Bosmere and Claydon Hundred, Civil parishes in Suffolk and Mid Suffolk District.
Its subject is documented across 12 Wikipedia language editions.
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Place details
- Locality
- Mid Suffolk
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Flowton
- UK place.static_image
- Flowton - Church of St Mary.jpg
- UK place.static_image_width
- 240px
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Church of St Mary
- UK place.population
- 117
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 Census)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Flowton
- UK place.shire_district
- Mid Suffolk
- UK place.shire_county
- Suffolk
- UK place.region
- East of England
- UK place.post_town
- Ipswich
- UK place.postcode_area
- IP
- UK place.postcode_district
- IP8
- UK place.dial_code
- 01473
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TM082468
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Mid Suffolk
- Population
- 117
- Image
- Flowton - Church of St Mary.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01473
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- Flowton
- postal code
- IP8
- OS grid reference
- TM082468
- P8168
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- St Mary's Church
- Manorial history
- Flowton Priory
- Population Structure
- Employment
- Occupational history
- Recent Occupational Structure
- Flowton Community
- References
- External links
Flowton is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England, with a population of 117 people. The name 'Flowton' originally derives from the word 'Flocctun', meaning a flock of sheep or a sheep farm. The parish is located around six miles north west of Ipswich, which is the county town of Suffolk. Flowton contains the hamlet of Flowton Brook, and consists of rural farmland accompanied by scattered farm houses and a few newer builds situated nearby the parish church of 'St Mary's'. In the 1870s, Flowton was described as: "Flowton, a parish in Bosmere district, Suffolk; 3½ miles WNW of Bramford r. station, and 5½ NW by W of Ipswich. Post town, Bramford under Ipswich. Acres 495. Real property, £994. Pop., 151. Houses, 34. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £140.* Patron, Henry Thornton, Esq. The church is good."
== St Mary's Church ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Flowton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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