Rattlesden
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|official_name=Rattlesden
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| population = 900
| population_ref = [http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/38314C3E-02A0-4515-92FE-8909C6FDB3A3/0/Parishestimates01to05.pdf Estimates of Total Population of Areas in Suffolk] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081219023551/http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/38314C3E-02A0-4515-92FE-8909C6FDB3A3/0/Parishestimates01to05.pdf |date=19 December 2008 }} Suffolk County Council
959 (2011){{cite web|url=http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11127838&c=Rattlesden&d=16&e=62&g=6466451&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=1&s=1472230439172&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|access-date=26 August 2016|publisher=Office for National Statistics|work=Neighbourhood Statistics}}
|shire_district= Mid Suffolk
|shire_county = Suffolk
|region= East of England
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|post_town= Bury St Edmunds
|postcode_district = IP30
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Rattlesden is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. It is approximately {{convert|15|mi|km|0}} north-west from the county town of Ipswich, with the nearest town Stowmarket {{convert|4|mi|km|0}} to the east. The parish includes the hamlets of Hightown Green and Poystreet Green.{{Cite book|last=WHITE|first=WILLIAM|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KO8NAAAAQAAJ&q=rattlesden+hightown+green+poy+street+green&pg=PA493|title=HISTORY, GAZETTEER, AND DIRECTORY OF SUFFOLK|date=1855|pages=492–493|language=en}}
In 2005 the population of Rattlesden was 900, and for the 2011 Census the returns included the neighbouring parish of Shelland.{{cn|date=November 2020}}
The Anglican parish church of St Nicholas dates to the 13th century, with later additions and alterations.{{cn|date=November 2020}}
History
The village and surrounding area, like much of East Anglia, was a hotbed of Puritan sentiment during much of the 16th and 17th centuries. In 1634, a local wheelwright, Richard Kimball led a relatively large company from Rattlesden to the Massachusetts Bay Colony as part of the wave of emigration that occurred during the Great Migration.Thompson, Roger, Mobility & Migration, East Anglian Founders of New England, 1629-1640, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994, 212-213.
Thomas Cobbold (1680–1752), the brewer who established the Cliff Brewery and first member of the Cobbold family brewing dynasty, was born at Rattlesden. John Pretyman (1753/1754–1817), the Anglican priest who served as Archdeacon of Lincoln from 1793 to 1817, was a curate of the parish.
During the Second World War, Rattlesden was the site of the U.S. Army Air Force heavy bomber base, RAF Rattlesden.{{cn|date=November 2020}} The site is now used by the Rattlesden Gliding Club.{{cn|date=November 2020}}
In 1975 the historic core of the village became a conservation area under the auspices of the district council and the guidelines of English Heritage.{{cn|date=November 2020}}
References
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- Roberts, Gary Boyd, Ed., English Origins of New England Families, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1984, 691–92.
External links
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- [http://www.onesuffolk.co.uk/rattlesdenPC/ Parish Council website]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100407070005/http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/rattlesden.htm Suffolk Churches website]
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