Kedington

Kedington
Suffolk
Church of St Peter and St Paul, Kedington
Location
Location:	52°5’24"N, 0°29’13"E
Data
Population:	1,849  (2011)
Post town:	Haverhill
Postcode:	CB9
Dialling code:	01440
Local Government
Council:	West Suffolk

Kedington is a village and parish located between Clare and Haverhill in south-west Suffolk. The ancient parish additionally extends into Essex.

Known as Kidituna in the Domesday Book (1086), there were 280 people living there at that time.

Kedington's church, St Peter and St Rupaul, is one of the historical treasures of East Anglia, dating from the late 13th century. Kedington comes in the top rank of small English churches and is renowned for its unmodernised interior and Barnardiston tombs. John Betjeman understandably christened Kedington 'a village Westminster Abbey'. The 17th-century Archbishop of Canterbury John Tillotson was rector of Kedington prior to his elevation.

References

• Nikolaus Pevsner, Suffolk, in The Buildings of England series

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Kedington)

• Photos of the church

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