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Stanningfield is a village in the parish of Bradfield Combust with Stanningfield, in the St Edmundsbury District, in the English county of Suffolk. The village lies just off of the A134 road, about 5 miles south-east of Bury St Edmunds, 5 miles north-west of Lavenham and 10 miles north of Sudbury. ==History== Stanningfield takes its name from the Early English name "Stanfella" or "Stansfelda" meaning "stoney field". It is known that the area was occupied at the beginning of English recorded history because traces of Roman occupation has been found on one of the local farms. Occasional documentary references mention the village in Anglo-Saxon, Norman (The Domesday Book and medieval times. The oldest building, St Nicolas' Church, dates back to at least the Norman period. The 1838 Tithe Map shows the same internal road patterns as today with roads leading to the neighbouring villages of Hawstead, Lawshall, Great Whelnetham, Sicklesmere, Bradfield Combust and Cockfield where the nearest railway station was located until its closure to passengers in 1961. The River Lark represents a dominant landscape feature while the village also has several greens with Hoggard's Green, the largest, having always played an important part in community life. While the pond on the green has long gone, in 1996 a successful reclamation of an ancient pond at Old Lane was undertaken. A small scattered village, Stanningfield's main centre is around the green, the Red House Public House and the nearby community shop. There is a picturesque area around St Nicolas' Church which includes the village hall (formerly the church hall), the former rectory and several farm houses. On the Lawshall side of the village stands Coldham Hall, a magnificent Tudor House. A remarkable feature of the history of Stanningfield has been the continuity of Roman Catholicism from the Middle Ages to the present day, in a predominantly Protestant area. Ambrose Rookwood of Coldham Hall was executed for his involvement in the Gunpowder Plot.〔 The novelist, playwright and actress Elizabeth Inchbald (''née'' Simpson) was born into a Catholic farming family in the village on 15 October 1773. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stanningfield」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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