36-617: Windsor Green is a hamlet in the civil parish of Cockfield , in the Babergh district of the county of Suffolk , England. It is about four miles away from the large village of Lavenham and about eleven miles away from the large town of Bury St Edmunds . For transport there is the A1141 road and the A134 road nearby. 52°09′33″N 0°46′03″E / 52.1592°N 0.7674°E / 52.1592; 0.7674 This Suffolk location article
72-592: A railway station on the Long Melford–Bury St Edmunds branch line , which was opened on 9 August 1865. There were plans for the Hadleigh branch line to be extended to Lavenham, but they never came to fruition. The line was an important goods route during the Second World War and was guarded by numerous Type 22 pillboxes , most of which are still visible in the surrounding farmland. The railway station
108-490: A TV advertisement for the launch of the new Austin Metro were filmed in the village, primarily on the market square, as well as in neighbouring Kersey . In 1986, the film Playing Away , about a visiting cricket team from Brixton , was also filmed in the village. The Market Square is the setting of John Lennon and Yoko Ono 's 1970 film Apotheosis . In 2010, under conditions of strict secrecy, scenes from Harry Potter and
144-405: A location include Lowland Village a 1943 British Council release and an episode of Treasure Hunt from February 1988. One legend suggests that the distorted, or "crooked", appearance of many of the town's buildings inspired the poem " There Was a Crooked Man ". One discussion of the town provides these specifics as to the reason the houses are crooked. The town grew so fast that many of
180-586: A tax being raised in England to pay for war with France. However, this was happening without the consent of parliament. In 1525, 10,000 men from Lavenham and the surrounding villages took part in a serious uprising that threatened to spread to the nearby counties of Essex and Cambridgeshire . However, the revolt was suppressed for the King by the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk , with the aid of local families. Elizabeth I visited
216-435: Is 'The Crooked House' at 7 High Street. Thought to be the inspiration for the old English nursery rhyme "There Was a Crooked Man", The Crooked House was built in 1395 as part of a medieval Hall House. It has been Grade II listed since 1958 as part of 7–9 High Street. The listing description indicates that 7–9 High Street was divided into two tenements before 1958, and that the orange building (originally "the south cross wing")
252-555: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Cockfield, Suffolk Cockfield is a village and civil parish located approximately 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (5.6 km) from Lavenham in Suffolk , England. The village consists of a central point and several outlying hamlets : Buttons Green , Colchester Green , Cross Green , Great Green , Oldhall Green , Smithwood Green and Windsor Green . Surrounded mostly by fields used for farming, and with few roads, its population
288-529: Is evidence of Bronze Age settlement, and a number of findings indicate ancient defensive ditches, known as The Warbanks . The name "Cockfield" is derived from the Old English "Cohha's open land", Cohha presumably being one of the first residents of the settlement. The village appeared in the Domesday Book of 1086 under the name of "Cothefelda" and is listed as a prosperous manor whose wealth had grown since
324-469: Is intersected by two small valleys, breaking it into three parts; the church is located atop the southernmost section, the marketplace on the central part, while the northernmost section is topped by the remains of a windmill . The southernmost valley contains a brook running between the pond at Lavenham Hall and the River Brett, though it was covered by a culvert 500 years ago, and Water Street built over
360-468: Is noted for its Guildhall , Little Hall, 15th-century church, half-timbered medieval cottages and circular walks. In the medieval period it was among the twenty wealthiest settlements in England. In 2011 the parish had a population of 1722. Before the Norman conquest , the manor of Lavenham had been held by the thegn Ulwin or Wulwine. In 1086 the estate was in the possession of Aubrey de Vere I , ancestor of
396-603: The Earls of Oxford . He had already had a vineyard planted there. The Vere family continued to hold the estate until 1604, when it was sold to Sir Thomas Skinner. Lavenham prospered from the wool trade in the 15th and 16th centuries, with the town's blue broadcloth being an export of note. By the late 15th century, the town was among the richest in the British Isles , paying more in taxation than considerably larger towns such as York and Lincoln . Several merchant families emerged,
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#1732890881255432-550: The Norman Conquest . During the Middle Ages, the village became "Cokefield" and finally "Cockfield". At some stage in the eleventh and twelfth centuries a castle was constructed within the village, mostly likely on the site of Old Cockfield hall, although the location is ultimately uncertain. The De Cockfield family were in possession of the site in the twelfth century, alongside other local castles at Groton and Lindsey . It
468-620: The marijuana smuggler Howard Marks was arrested in the bar of the Swan Hotel. John Lennon and Yoko Ono filmed their experimental film Apotheosis with a hot-air balloon in Lavenham's Market Place in December 1969. The village is around five miles northeast of the town of Sudbury . Situated in a relatively hilly area, Lavenham is on a ridge on the western bank of the River Brett . The ridge
504-413: The 14th century and is buttressed almost to the top. The tower was nearly destroyed by a storm during the winter of 1774-5 and on August 2, 1775, after repairs were nearly completed, an apparent lightning strike resulted in a fire that damaged it once again. The mathematician William Ludlam, rector from 1767, installed an astronomical observatory on the tower whose filled in windows can still be seen. In
540-462: The Deathly Hallows – Part 1 were filmed there. The village's De Vere House represented sections of Godric's Hollow, as backgrounds, since the cast members did not actually visit Lavenham. Lavenham was also the setting for many scenes in the mid-1990s BBC TV drama Lovejoy . An episode aired in December 1994, was titled "Last Tango in Lavenham". Other productions that have used Lavenham as
576-478: The Guildhall. In 1969 some filming was done in Lavenham for The Thirteen Chairs , also known as Twelve Plus One . This was actress Sharon Tate 's last movie before her murder. In 1971, part of Pier Paolo Pasolini ’s film The Canterbury Tales was recorded here, with the village representing medieval London. The 1975 Stanley Kubrick film Barry Lyndon included the Guildhall. In 1980, some sequences in
612-531: The US Army Air Force 487th Bombardment Group between 1944 and 1945. The airfield , actually located a few miles away in Alpheton, has since been returned to arable farmland, though some evidence of its structures and buildings remains, including the control tower. In the 1960s, a new area of council housing was built in the north of the village, centred on Spring Street, Spring Close and Spring Lane. In 1980
648-575: The college. Rectors of St Peter's have included John Knewstub the Presbyterian , William Ludlam the mathematician, and Churchill Babington the archaeologist and botanist. In May 1582, an assembly of about 60 clergymen from Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire met in Cockfield Church to confer about the Prayer Book, clerical dress, and customs. The church's sizeable square flint tower dates from
684-618: The houses were built in haste with green timber. As the wood dried, the timbers warped causing the houses to bend at unexpected angles. Unfortunately, Lavenham's good times didn't last long. When Dutch refugees settled in Colchester began producing cloth that was cheaper, lighter and more fashionable than Lavenham's, the town's cloth industry went bust. By the time the dried timber started twisting, Lavenham's families had lost its wealth and with no money to rebuild their homes, Lavenham's crooked houses were left as they were. The best-known crooked house
720-400: The latest styles. The Little Hall is a late 14th-century hall house on the main square. First built in the 1390s as a family house and workplace, it was enlarged and modernised in the mid-1550s, and greatly extended later. By the 1700s it was home to six families. It was restored in the 1920s/30s by Robert Grenville Gayer-Anderson and his identical twin brother Thomas. In the 1960s and 70s it
756-562: The most successful of which was the Spring family . The town's prosperity at this time can be seen in the lavishly constructed wool church of St Peter and St Paul , which stands on a hill at the top end of the main high street. The church, completed in 1525, is excessively large for the size of the village and with a tower standing 138 feet (42 m) high it lays claim to being the highest village church tower in Britain . Other buildings also demonstrate
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#1732890881255792-518: The poem The Star , from which the lyrics for the nursery rhyme Twinkle Twinkle Little Star are taken. Colchester and Ongar , both in Essex, also have claims to be the site of composition of the poem. Like many East Anglian settlements, Lavenham was home to an airfield in the Second World War II – Air Force Station Lavenham, an American Air Force airfield. USAAF Station 137 was manned by
828-430: The same road as the church is the village school, serving the village and surrounding communities. Children from the ages of four to nine attend the school. Find more information at the school website . [REDACTED] Media related to Cockfield, Suffolk at Wikimedia Commons Lavenham Lavenham is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the Babergh district, in the county of Suffolk , England. It
864-403: The seat of a number of prestigious rectors. A landmark visible for a distance across the neighbouring countryside, the church of St Peter's is one of the finest of Suffolk's many village churches, with the present building mostly dating from the 14th and 15th centuries. The church's size is unusual for such a rural location, but this becomes less surprising when one considers its location between
900-529: The site prior to the building of the present church in the 14th century. The church fell under the patronage of the Abbot of St Edmundsbury until the Reformation when the Spring family , wealthy Lavenham clothiers and noblemen, took over, resulting in a close link with the region's strong wool trade. From 1708 the patronage fell to St John's College, Cambridge who appointed a number of distinguished Fellows of
936-402: The three great medieval merchant towns of Bury St Edmunds , Lavenham , and Sudbury . There is no record of a church in the Domesday Book although a village of Cockfield's size would almost certainly have had one. The first surviving record of the parish's ecclesiastical history dates from 1190 when William de Cullum was installed as the first rector , although there is no existing record of
972-431: The top. There have been attempts to give the culverts Scheduled Monument status as a "rare early example of municipal plumbing". The northernmost valley also contains a small stream as well as being the former route of the abandoned railway line. Lavenham is on the A1141 , the main road between Hadleigh and Bury St Edmunds . HGV traffic has been an issue for the village's narrow streets. The village formerly had
1008-527: The town during a Royal Progress of East Anglia in 1578. Like most of East Anglia, Lavenham was staunchly Parliamentarian throughout the Civil Wars of the 1640s. Most local landowners, such as Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston , Sir Philip Parker and Sir William Spring , were strong advocates of the Parliamentarian cause. There is no record of the town ever being directly involved in the conflict, although
1044-523: The town's medieval wealth. Lavenham Wool Hall was completed in 1464. The Guildhall of the catholic guild of Corpus Christi was built in 1529 and stands in the centre of the village overlooking the market square. When visiting the town in 1487 , Henry VII fined several Lavenham families for displaying too much wealth. However, during the 16th century Lavenham's industry was badly affected by Dutch refugees settled in Colchester , who produced cloth that
1080-538: The townspeople did provide a troop of soldiers to aid in Parliament's Siege of Colchester in 1648. A grammar school opened in the town in 1647. The settlement was struck by plague in 1666 and 1699. Small pox struck in 1712 and 1713, killing over one in six of Lavenham's residents. In the late 18th century, the village was home to poet Jane Taylor , and it may have been while living in Shilling Street that she wrote
1116-505: Was "very much altered in the C18 and C19" and was "restored with the timber-framing exposed". In 2005 and for some time after, the building was an art gallery. The property operated as a tearoom from 2013 to 2020. In 2021, it was bought and restored by Alex and Oli Khalil-Martin and 'the Crooked Men' now host experiences and events. In 2022, Country Life described The Crooked House as "one of
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1152-682: Was 839 in 2001, increasing to 868 at the 2011 Census. The village previously had a railway station on the Long Melford-Bury St Edmunds branch line , but it was closed in 1961 as part of the Beeching Axe . Its football team, Cockfield United play in the Suffolk and Ipswich Football League . The present village has been inhabited for well over 2000 years. The finding of a sword (now in the Moyse Hall Museum in Bury St Edmunds )
1188-606: Was an outpost of Kingston (Surrey) College of Art. In 1975 Surrey County Council offered it to the Suffolk Building Preservation Trust, who restored it. It now contains the Gayer-Anderson collection of pictures and artefacts, including a copy of the Gayer-Anderson cat , and operates as a museum. During the reign of Henry VIII , Lavenham was the scene of serious resistance to Wolsey's ' Amicable Grant ',
1224-427: Was cheaper and lighter than Lavenham's, and also more fashionable. Cheaper from Europe also aided the settlement's decline, and by 1600 it had lost its reputation as a major trading town. This sudden and dramatic change to the town's fortune is the principal reason for so many medieval and Tudor buildings remaining unmodified in Lavenham, as subsequent generations of citizens did not have the wealth required to rebuild in
1260-490: Was closed to passengers on 10 April 1961, with a goods service surviving until April 1965. Today the disused line is used as a public footpath and is a designated nature reserve . The village is served by Lavenham Community Primary School, which currently caters for pupils aged 5–11. The school feeds into Thomas Gainsborough School . Parts of Market Square were included in the 1968 Vincent Price film Witchfinder General . The witch-burning scenes were staged in front of
1296-513: Was recorded in the late twelfth or early thirteenth century chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond that the tower of Adam de Cockfield had been 'seven times twenty feet in heigh', and although not certain, this appears to refer to the site in Cockfield. Cockfield became a centre of Puritanism during the 17th century. During the 19th century the parish was one of the largest and wealthiest in Suffolk and
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