Needham Market

Coordinates: 52°09′07″N 1°03′11″E / 52.152°N 1.053°E / 52.152; 1.053
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Needham Market
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townIPSWICH
Postcode districtIP6
Dialling code01449
PoliceSuffolk
FireSuffolk
AmbulanceEast of England
UK Parliament
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UK
England
Suffolk
52°09′07″N 1°03′11″E / 52.152°N 1.053°E / 52.152; 1.053

Needham Market is a town in the

Suffolk, England. Nearby villages include Barking, Darmsden, Badley and Creeting St Mary. The town of Needham, Massachusetts, was named after Needham Market.[2]

History

The Old Town Hall

It initially grew around the wool combing industry, until the onset of the plague, which swept the town from 1663 to 1665. To prevent the spread of the disease, the town was chained at either end, which succeeded in its task but at the cost of two-thirds of the populace. The town did not recover for nearly two hundred years, with the canalisation of the River Gipping in the late 18th Century and the introduction of the railway. Modern Needham Market contains two road names that are linked to the plague. Chainhouse Road, named after the chains that ran across the East end of the town. The Causeway, is a modern variation of 'the corpseway' so called because of the route that plague victims were transported out of town, to neighbouring Barking church for interment.[3]

Notable buildings

Notable buildings in the town include:

Sport and leisure

Needham Market has a Non-League football club Needham Market F.C. who play at Bloomfields, they have been very successful over recent years after reaching the semi-finals of the FA Vase.[7]

The town is on the route of the Dunwich Dynamo annual cycle ride.

Needham Lake (a former gravel pit) provides leisure facilities and a wildlife habitat.[8]

Media

Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC East and ITV Anglia. Television signals are received from either the Tacolneston or Sudbury TV transmitters. [9] [10]

Local radio stations are BBC Radio Suffolk, Heart East, Nation Radio Suffolk, Greatest Hits Radio Ipswich & Suffolk, and Ipswich Community Radio, a community based station. [11]

The town is served by the local newspapers, Ipswich Star and East Anglian Daily Times.

Transport

The

A14
(although then the A45) once ran directly through Needham Market, but a bypass was built in the 1970s. This has left the town with good road links to the surrounding area, but with less traffic than before.

Notable people

Notable people from Needham include:

  • Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), chemist, theologian and natural philosopher, was Needham's parish priest from 1755–61
  • Quaker
    businessman and minister.
  • June Brown (1927–2022), actress who played Dot Cotton in EastEnders[12]
  • Ros Scott (born 1957), Liberal Democrat peer, a former district and county councillor for the town, chose it for her title.[13]

References

  1. ^ "Town Population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
  2. ISBN 9780738591094
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  3. ^ "Weird Suffolk: Needham Market Corpse Way". East Anglian Daily Times. 30 July 2018. Retrieved 24 April 2022.
  4. ^ Historic England. "Church of St. John the Baptist (1254254)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 24 April 2022.
  5. ^ Historic England. "The Limes Hotel (1253662)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 24 April 2022.
  6. ^ Historic England. "Old Town Hall, Needham Market (1253656)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 24 April 2022.
  7. ^ "Club History - Needham Market Football Club". Needhammarketfc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 8 October 2011. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
  8. ^ "Needham Lake". Mid Suffolk District Council. Archived from the original on 6 April 2013. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
  9. ^ "Full Freeview on the Tacolneston (Norfolk, England) transmitter". UK Free TV. 1 May 2004. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  10. ^ "Full Freeview on the Sudbury (Suffolk, England) transmitter". UK Free TV. 1 May 2004. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  11. ^ "Ipswich Community Radio". Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  12. ^ Whitmore, Greg (4 April 2022). "June Brown: a life in pictures". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
  13. ^ "Baroness Scott of Needham Market | People". Libdems.org.uk. Retrieved 8 August 2012.

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