Official Name: | Blyford |
Country: | England |
Region: | East of England |
Os Grid Reference: | TM4276 |
Coordinates: | 52.335°N 1.558°W |
Post Town: | Halesworth |
Postcode Area: | IP |
Postcode District: | IP19 |
Shire County: | Suffolk |
Shire District: | East Suffolk |
Population: | 110 |
Population Ref: | (2001 census) |
Static Image Name: | Blyford - Church of All Saints.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | Church of All Saints, Blyford |
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Blyford (formerly known as Blythford) is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England, about 3miles east of Halesworth and separated from Wenhaston by the River Blyth, Suffolk to the south.[1] It is in the civil parish of Sotherton.
Population in 1801 was 163 and by 1840 had risen to 223. In 1861 the population was 193.[2]
In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Blyford like this:
On 9 August 2010, BBC Radio Suffolk reported at the 14th/15th century thatched Queen's Head Inn. The inn sign features St Etheldreda as the Queen. Chickens are located at the inn. The thatched roof was replaced in 1988 after a fire.
The church is just across the road from the inn with rumours of a smugglers' passage being located there.The church was built in 1088, with a 13th-century font added.[3]