Ashby, Suffolk

Ashby
Suffolk
St Mary's parish church seen from the southwest
Location
Grid reference:	TM488996
Location:	52°31’55"N, 1°40’8"E
Data
Post town:	Lowestoft
Postcode:	NR32
Dialling code:	01502
Local Government
Council:	East Suffolk
Parliamentary constituency:	Waveney
Website:	ashvillages.org.uk

Ashby is a hamlet in Suffolk, in the north-easternmost tongue of the county, between the River Waveney and the sea, about five and a half miles north-west of Lowestoft. Ashby stands just south of the Flitton Decoys, a broad lake which forms part of the Suffolk Broads. The River Waveney, which forms the border with Norfolk, is further to the west. Great Yarmouth in the latter county is about five and a half miles to the north.

Parish church

There is a remarkable parish church, St Mary, about half a mile south of the hamlet. The church is built of local flint, with a small amount of red brick for quoins and repairs. The roof of the nave and chancel is thatched. The church has an octagonal west tower that was rebuilt probably early in the 16th century. The church is a Grade I listed building.

The oldest part of the building is the Purbeck marble font, which is of the 12th or 13th century. The nave and chancel of the church are 13th-century.

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Ashby, Suffolk)

• ASH Villages

References

• Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Suffolk, 1961; 1974 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09648-4page 77