Shelley, Suffolk

Human settlement in England

Shelley

All Saints' Church, Shelley

Shelley

Location within Suffolk

Population| 50 (2005)[1]
District|

* Babergh

Shire county|

* Suffolk

Region|

* East

Country| England
Sovereign state| United Kingdom
Post town| Ipswich
Postcode district| IP7

List of places

England
Suffolk

52°00′N 0°57′E﻿ / ﻿52°N 0.95°E﻿ / 52; 0.95

Shelley is a small village and civil parish in Suffolk, England. Located on the west bank of the River Brett around three miles south of Hadleigh, it is part of Babergh district. The population of the village was only minimal at the 2011 Census and is included in the civil parish of Higham.

Most of the parish is within the Dedham Vale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Other points of interest are Shelley Hall, a listed building with a protected moat, once owned by the Partridge family,[2][3] and Snakes Wood, which is classified as Ancient Woodland and serves as a nature reserve.

The village is first recorded before the Norman Conquest in the S1051 charter of 1000AD in the will of Ælfflæd. The Domesday Book of 1086 records the population of Shelley in 1086 to be 42 households along with 8 cattle, 32 pigs, 200 sheep, 3 other animals, 28 acres of meadow, 1,000 woodland pigs, two mills.[4]

Barker writes that there is an unusually long hedge in Shelley made up of coppiced lime trees. He writes that this follows the boundaries of remnants of nineteenth-century clearances of some of the ancient forest. Hedges of this sort are known as assart hedges.[5]

Elizabeth Gosnold Tilney, sister of Jamestown colonist and explorer Bartholomew Gosnold, is buried at All Saints' Church, Shelley. An attempt was made to use DNA from her supposed remains to confirm the identity of the body of her brother in Jamestown, but it was inconclusive as it could not be confirmed which body was hers.[6]

## References

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1. ^ Estimates of Total Population of areas of Suffolk Archived 2008-12-19 at the Wayback Machine Suffolk County Council
2. ^ Suffolk Manorial Families, vol. 2, ed. Joseph James Muskett, p. 168
3. ^ East Anglian Miscellany, issue 1, part 285, 1965, pp. 14, 35
4. ^ "Shelley | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
5. ^ Barker, Hugh Hedge Britannia 2012 Bloomsbury, London p26-7
6. ^ Bone test may solve 'US founder' mystery | UK news | The Guardian

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Babergh

Towns|

* Sudbury
* Hadleigh

Civil parishes (current)|

* Acton
* Aldham
* Alpheton
* Arwarton
* Assington
* Belstead
* Bentley
* Bildeston
* Boxford
* Boxted
* Brantham
* Brent Eleigh
* Brettenham
* Bures St Mary
* Burstall
* Capel St Mary
* Chattisham
* Chelmondiston
* Chelsworth
* Chilton
* Cockfield
* Copdock and Washbrook
* East Bergholt
* Edwardstone
* Elmsett
* Freston
* Glemsford
* Great Cornard
* Great Waldingfield
* Groton
* Hadleigh (town)
* Harkstead
* Hartest
* Higham
* Hintlesham
* Hitcham
* Holbrook
* Holton St Mary
* Kersey
* Kettlebaston
* Lavenham
* Lawshall
* Layham
* Leavenheath
* Lindsey
* Little Cornard
* Little Waldingfield
* Long Melford
* Milden
* Monks Eleigh
* Nayland-with-Wissington
* Nedging-with-Naughton
* Newton
* Pinewood
* Polstead
* Preston St Mary
* Raydon
* Semer
* Shelley
* Shimpling
* Shotley
* Somerton
* Sproughton
* Stanstead
* Stoke-by-Nayland
* Stratford St. Mary
* Stutton
* Sudbury (town)
* Tattingstone
* Thorpe Morieux
* Wattisham
* Wenham Magna
* Wenham Parva
* Whatfield
* Wherstead
* Woolverstone

Civil parishes (former)|

* Ballingdon
* Copdock
* Hadleigh Hamlet
* Naughton
* Nayland
* Nedging
* Sudbury All Saints
* Sudbury St Bartholomew
* Sudbury St Gregory
* Sudbury St Peter
* Washbrook
* Wissington

Other settlements|

* Ash Street
* Brundon
* Bures
* Bury Road
* Drakestone Green
* Erwarton
* Fenstead End
* Flatford
* Hagmore Green
* Hanningfield Green
* Harrow Green
* Hart's Green
* Hibb's Green
* Lambs Lane
* Lawshall Green
* Little Wenham
* Lower Layham
* Nedging Tye
* Oldhall Green
* Pin Mill
* Rooksey Green
* Shotley Gate
* The Street
* Thorington Street
* Upper Layham
* Windsor Green
* Withermarsh Green

Buildings|

* Abbas Hall
* Bridge Cottage
* St Mary's Church, Chilton
* Coldham Cottage
* Flatford Mill
* Freston Tower
* Gainsborough's House
* Giffords Hall
* Kentwell Hall
* Kersey Priory
* St Peter and St Paul's Church, Lavenham
* Lavenham Guildhall
* Lavenham Priory
* Lavenham Wool Hall
* All Saints' Church, Lawshall
* Lawshall Hall
* St James' Chapel, Lindsey
* All Saints Church, Little Wenham
* Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford
* Melford Hall
* Milden Castle
* All Saints Church, Newton Green
* Smallbridge Hall
* St Mary's Church, Stoke-by-Nayland
* St Gregory's Church, Sudbury
* St Peter's Church, Sudbury
* Tattingstone Wonder
* Thorington Hall
* St Mary's Church, Washbrook
* Wattisham Strict Baptist Chapel
* Willy Lott's Cottage
* Woolverstone Hall

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