Westhorpe, Suffolk
Westhorpe is a linear village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. The village is from the town of Bury St. Edmunds, from Stowmarket, and from the villages of Wyverstone and Finningham.
Westhorpe Hall was a former seat of the Dukes of Suffolk, and was where Mary Tudor, Queen of France died. East Thorpe manor, its close neighbour, was the seat of a previous duke, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk.
John Clarke, physician, Baptist minister, co-founder of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and author of its charter, was born in Westhorpe. Jean Kent, film and television actress, lived at Westorpe until her death
