Sicklesmere

{{Short description|Village in Suffolk, England}}

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| post_town= Bury St Edmunds

| postcode_area= IP

| postcode_district= IP30

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Sicklesmere is a village in Suffolk, England. Located on the A134 around a mile south of Bury St Edmunds, the village is divided between the civil parishes of Little and Great Whelnetham .

History

All spellings of the name until the seventeenth century are with -d-, starting with Sidulfes mere circa 1100.

The purported 1272 spelling Sykolvesmere, in W. Rye, A Calendar of the Feet of Fines for Suffolk (1900) is an error by Rye; the manuscript of the fine in the National Archives actually has Sydolvesm[er]e.{{cite web |title=CP25(1)215/32/11 |url=http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT7/CP25(1)/CP25_1_215_32-40/CP25no1no215no32/IMG_0404.htm |website=Anglo American Law Tradition |year=2015 |access-date=6 February 2021}} The village is named after a mere or lake that used to be present near the River Lark, and the first element is the Old English personal name *Siduwulf, not a Norse name (Keith Briggs and Kelly Kilpatrick, A dictionary of Suffolk place-names, Nottingham: EPNS & SIAH 2016, page 122). In truth it is no more than a small cluster of properties besides the River Lark. Many of these are flint-built cottages.

A circular-shaped building known as the Toll House is located on the main road. In the days of coach travel there was a regular service between Norwich and London via Sudbury which ran four times a day through Sicklesmere. The village was also previously served by Welnetham railway station until the Beeching Axe.

The village has a pub, the Rushbrooke Arms.{{cite web|title=Rushbrooke Arms|url=http://www.eating-inn.co.uk/house/rushbrooke-arms-bury-st-edmunds |website=Eating Inn |access-date= }}

Gallery

Image:River Lark at Sicklesmere.jpg|River Lark at Sicklesmere

File:Rushbrooke Arms Sicklesmere Suffolk.jpg|The Rushbrooke Arms

File:Village Store, Sicklesmere.jpg|Village Store

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