Wickhambrook


Wickhambrook is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. It is about south-west from Bury St Edmunds, halfway to Haverhill, off the A143 road.
Wickhambrook is the largest village by area in the county of Suffolk with a population of 1170 in 2005.
The village was recorded in the Domesday Book as "Wicham".

Settlements

The parish contains a number of hamlets and eleven village greens:
In 2011 St Edmundsbury Borough Council announced that Wickhambrook is to lose one of its Greens. Lady's Green is to become part of Ousden. The date of this change is still to be determined, as it is under review.
The village has three places of worship: All Saints' Church – Anglican on Church Road near the B1063 road; the United Reformed Church, at Meeting Green on Cemetery Road; and the Methodist Chapel at the intersection of Shop Hill and Cemetery Road. In former times there was a Free Chapel in the grounds of Badmondisfield Hall; its date of closure is unrecorded.
There are three formal burial sites in the village: the original churchyard of All Saints', which was closed by an Order in Council in 1890 ; a small number of burial plots in the grounds of the United Reformed Church; and finally the cemetery to be found on Cemetery Road which also hosts a small chapel and the village war memorial.
Bullock's Mill was a post mill built at Thorns about 1830. It was demolished about 1914; some remains can be seen. Another mill stood on the road towards Hargrave until 1920. A third mill dating from the 18th century, stood in the south of the parish near Denston until 1969.

Present day

Wickhambrook hosts a number of facilities.
Farms in the area include Brookhouse Farm just off A143 and Rolfes Farm further north as well as Gesyns Farm, Badmondisfield Hall and ancient manor house thought to date back to the Doomsday book is also situated on the outskirts of the village.
Alf Hicks' biscuit barrel award is awarded each year for outstanding service to the village.