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Westerfield
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Westerfield, Church of St Mary Magdalene
Westerfield is located in Suffolk
Westerfield
Westerfield
Area 3.07 km2 (1.19 sq mi)
Population 442 (2011)
• Density 144/km2 (370/sq mi)
OS grid reference TM1747
District
  • East Suffolk
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town IPSWICH
Postcode district IP6
Dialling code 01473
Police Suffolk
Fire Suffolk
Ambulance East of England
EU Parliament East of England
UK Parliament
  • Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
List of places
UK
England
Suffolk
52°04′59″N 1°10′19″E / 52.083°N 1.172°E / 52.083; 1.172

Westerfield is a village in Suffolk, England. It lies about two miles north of the centre of Ipswich in the East Suffolk District, and is served by Westerfield railway station on the IpswichLowestoft East Suffolk Line.

Amenities

Westerfield has two public houses, The Swan in northern Westerfield and The Westerfield Railway in the south. Both serve meals and contribute much to local social activity.

Central Westerfield has a village green adjacent to the medieval parish Church of St Mary Magdalene, where the East Anglian cleric and Hebrew scholar Cyprian Thomas Rust (1808–1895) is among those buried. It has fine stained glass windows, of which St Mary of Magdala was designed by William Morris.

Population

The population of Westerfield with Culpho was estimated at 486 in 2019 and measured at 442 in the 2011 Census.

See also

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