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Levington
Levington Village Sign, Suffolk
Levington Location within Suffolk
Population	259 (2011)^[1]
OS grid reference	TM220403
District	East Suffolk
Shire county	Suffolk
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	IPSWICH
Postcode district	IP10
Dialling code	01473
List of places UK England Suffolk 52°00′22″N 1°15′09″E / 52.00611°N 1.25250°E / 52.00611; 1.25250

Levington is a small village in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. The population of the parish including Stratton Hall at the 2011 Census was 259. It was located in Colneis Hundred.^[2]^: 130

History

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Levington has a church called St Peter's Church and a pub. It is near the large town of Ipswich and the village of Nacton. A Viking ship was once found in Levington.^{[citation needed]} Roger Bigod of Norfolk was the main tenant in chief of the manor in 1086 and it is likely that his descendants the Earls of Norfolk held the manor. The manor had 14 households in 1086 which would amount to between 56-70 people living there. Sir Robert Hitcham (1572? – 1636), Member of Parliament, Attorney-General to Anne of Denmark Queen Consort to James I, and one-time owner of Framlingham Castle was born in the village. He bequeathed the castle to Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he had been educated, on his death.

Geography

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The village is widely known for the Levington Research Station, built by Fisons in 1957. The fertiliser factory of Fisons was at Bramford, west of Ipswich. The site was well known for developing Levington Compost in the 1960s.

References

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^ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 16 September 2015.
^ John Blatchly, John Kirby's Suffolk: His Maps and Roadbooks (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2004) ISBN 978-1-84383-051-1

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