Stradishall
Stradishall | ||
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Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | NEWMARKET | |
Postcode district | CB8 | |
Dialling code | 01440 | |
Police | Suffolk | |
Fire | Suffolk | |
Ambulance | East of England | |
UK Parliament | ||
Stradishall is a village and
English county of Suffolk
.
The civil parish includes a number of hamlets including Farley Green.
The
HMP Highpoint South
. Part of the former airfield remains a MOD training site which is closed to the public. There is a memorial to RAF Stradishall outside Stirling House which was once part of the officers quarters and now is a training unit for the Prison service. The village has an Anglican church dedicated to St Margaret.
Notable residents
- Lauri Love, activist and alleged computer system hacker.[2][3]
- John Reeder, Sr., (1613-1659), of Stradishall, Norfolk, England, Emigrated to America in 1630 on Winthrop's flagship 'the Arabella'; Pioneer; Settled in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and then Newtown, Long Island, New York.[4]
- Brenda Rawnsley, arts campaigner who worked as a librarian here.
References
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
- ^ "Briton Lauri Love faces new US hacking charges". BBC News. 27 February 2014.
- ^ "Vicar's son Lauri Love faces further charge of hacking FBI computers".
- ^ Lee, Francis B. (1907). "Genealogy and Personal Memories of Mercer County, New Jersey". Volume 2, Mercer County, New Jersey: Lewis Publishing Company.
External links
Media related to Stradishall at Wikimedia Commons