Culpho
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{{Infobox UK place
|official_name= Culpho
|static_image_name= Culpho church - geograph.org.uk - 4652.jpg
|static_image_caption= St Botolph's parish church
|os_grid_reference=
|coordinates= {{coord|52.096|1.225|display=inline,title}}
|population=48
|population_ref= (2021 census)
|civil_parish= Culpho
|shire_district= East Suffolk
|shire_county= Suffolk
|region= East of England
|country= England
|post_town= Ipswich
|postcode_area= IP
|postcode_district= IP6
|dial_code= 01473
|constituency_westminster= Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
}}
Culpho (pronounced Cul-fo) is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, about {{convert|4|mi}} northeast of the centre of Ipswich and {{convert|3+1/2|mi}} west of Woodbridge. In 2021 the parish had a population of 48.
Other neighbouring villages include Great Bealings, Westerfield, and Playford. From 1974 to 2019 it was in Suffolk Coastal district.
Toponym
The earliest known record of the toponym is Culfole in the Domesday Book of 1086, which list the population as 22 households.{{Cite web|url=https://opendomesday.org/place/TM2149/culpho/|title=Culpho {{!}} Domesday Book|website=opendomesday.org|access-date=2019-06-19}} In 12th-century records it appears as Colfho in 1168, Culfou in 1169 and Culfo in 1175. A pipe roll of 1178 records it as Culfho and an entry in the Book of Fees for 1250 records it as Colvesho. It is derived from Old English, probably meaning "Cūþwulf's hōh" (hōh = "spur of land").{{harvnb|Ekwall|1960|loc=Culpho}}
Parish church
The earliest parts of the Church of England parish church of St Botolph include the chancel, which is 13th-century. The nave has 14th-century features including a doorway and windows. There is also a 14th-century piscina in the chancel. The baptismal font is 15th-century. The church has a southwest tower with the porch built into its ground stage. The nave roof was rebuilt with new timbers in the 17th century.{{NHLE |num=1030504 |desc=Church of St Botolph |grade=II* |access-date=31 March 2014}}
The church was restored in 1884. It is a grade II* listed building.
St Botolph's church was granted to the Premonstratensian Leiston Abbey in the 13th century.{{sfn|Page|1907|pp=117–119}} The parish is now part of a shared benefice with Great Bealings, Little Bealings and Playford.{{cite web |title=Great Bealings & Little Bealings with Playford & Culpho (Benefice) |url=http://www.cofesuffolk.org/directory/benefice/110 |publisher=Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich |access-date=26 August 2018 |archive-date=26 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180826214533/http://www.cofesuffolk.org/directory/benefice/110 |url-status=dead }}
Thankful village
Culpho is one of the Thankful Villages, the few dozen parishes in England and Wales that suffered no fatalities in the First World War.
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite book |last=Ekwall |first=Eilert |author-link=Eilert Ekwall |orig-year=1936 |year=1960 |title=Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names |edition=4th |place=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0198691033 |at=Culpho }}
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Lewis |editor1-first=Samuel |editor1-link=Samuel Lewis (publisher) |orig-year=1848 |year=1931 |title=A Topographical Dictionary of England |volume=I |edition=Seventh |place=London |publisher=Samuel Lewis |pages=746–751 |url= https://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/england/pp746-751#h3-0016 }}
- {{cite book |editor-last=Page |editor-first=William |editor-link=William Page (historian) |year=1907 |title=A History of the County of Suffolk |volume=II: Ecclesiastical History, Religious Houses, Political History, Maritime History, Industries, Schools, Sport, Agriculture, Forestry |series=Victoria County History |place=Westminster |publisher=Archibald Constable & Co |pages=117–119 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Pevsner |first1=Nikolaus |author-link1=Nikolaus Pevsner |last2=Radcliffe |first2=Enid (revision) |year=1974 |orig-year=1961 |title=Suffolk |series=The Buildings of England |place=Harmondsworth |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=0-14-071020-5 |page=182 }}
External links
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