Shadingfield
Shadingfield is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district, in the English county of Suffolk located approximately south of Beccles along the A145.
The village is joined with Willingham St Mary and west of Sotterley. The mid-2005 population estimate for Shadingfield parish was 170, increasing to 178 at the time of the 2011 Census. The parish council operates to administer jointly the parishes of Shadingfield, Willingham, Sotterley and Ellough.
The village has few amenities beyond a pub, the Shadingfield Fox. Children attend a primary school in Brampton and the Sir John Leman High School in Beccles.
The local church, alongside the A145, is dedicated to St John the Baptist.
Shadingfield Hall is a Grade II listed Georgian house, now part of the Sotterley estate. It was built between 1806 and 1808 for Thomas Charles Scott, adjacent to a 17th-century manor house that he replaced. Scott's son, the Reverend T C Scott was Rector of Shadingfield until 1897.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown took his family holiday at Shadingfield Hall according to reports in the summer of 2008.
