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Withersfield is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. In 2011 its population was 450. The village has a public house and a town hall. Withersfield centres on the parish church, St Mary the Virgin. The village is set in a rural location, surrounded by farmland, yet is also only a mile north from the busy market town of Haverhill. Surrounding villages include Great Wratting, West Wickham and Great Thurlow. ==History== In 1870, the Imperial Gazeteer of England and Wales described Withersfield as: :''"...a parish in Risbridge district, Suffolk; 2 miles N W of Haverhill r. station. It has a post-office under Newmarket. Acres, 2,509. Real property, £3,791. Pop., 624. Houses, 146. The manor belongs to the Rev. W. Mayd. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £650. * Patron, the Rev. W. Mayd. The church was partly rebuilt and enlarged in 1868. There is a parochial school." '' The name Withersfield directly translate in Old English to 'Wether open land' which means an area which rams roam.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Suffolk/Withersfield )〕 With the village being set in the middle of the countryside, traditional most of the population worked in the agriculture industry. in 1881, 100 out of the 133 male population worked in agriculture.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=A Vision of Britain )〕 Withersfield appears in the Domesday book in the Risbridge hundred of Suffolk. It was made up of 2 villagers, 13 smallholders, 3 slaves and 2 free men. It held 3 lord’s plough teams and 2 men’s plough teams. It had a meadow of 3 acres and 20 woodland pigs. In 1066 the lords were Alwin, Leofwaru and Wulfmer. In 1086 they were Lord Godard, Lord Payne and Lord Widelard or Balliol.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TL6547/withersfield/ )〕 Withersfield has undergone many boundary changes. It was part of the Risbridge registration district until 1938 when the district was abolished to become the Braintree and Newmarket districts. Withersfield joined the Newmarket registration district until 1989 when the district was abolished with all of its remaining parishes joining Bury St Edmunds. This is the registration district that Withersfield remained in until 2010 when the district size expanded. Withersfield can now be found in the Suffolk registration district.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/sfk.html )〕 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「Withersfield」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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