Stradishall is a village and civil parish in West Suffolk in the English county of Suffolk.

Stradishall
St. Margaret's Church
Stradishall is located in Suffolk
Stradishall
Stradishall
Location within Suffolk
Population451 (2011)[1]
OS grid referenceTL7452
Civil parish
  • Stradishall
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townNEWMARKET
Postcode districtCB8
Dialling code01440
PoliceSuffolk
FireSuffolk
AmbulanceEast of England
UK Parliament
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UK
England
Suffolk
52°08′34″N 0°33′01″E / 52.1428°N 00.5504°E / 52.1428; 00.5504

The civil parish includes a number of hamlets including Farley Green.

The Royal Air Force operated an airfield near Stradishall, RAF Stradishall, which was operational between 1938 and 1970. The former airfield is now the site of two category C prisons: HMP Highpoint North and HMP Highpoint South. Part of the former airfield remains a MOD training site which is closed to the public. There is a memorial to RAF Stradishall outside Stirling House which was once part of the officers quarters and now is a training unit for the Prison service. The village has an Anglican church dedicated to St Margaret.

Notable residents

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  • Lauri Love, activist and alleged computer system hacker.[2][3]
  • John Reeder, Sr., (1613-1659), of Stradishall, Norfolk, England, Emigrated to America in 1630 on Winthrop's flagship 'the Arabella'; Pioneer; Settled in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and then Newtown, Long Island, New York.[4]
  • Brenda Rawnsley, arts campaigner who worked as a librarian here.

References

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  1. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  2. ^ "Briton Lauri Love faces new US hacking charges". BBC News. 27 February 2014.
  3. ^ "Vicar's son Lauri Love faces further charge of hacking FBI computers".
  4. ^ Lee, Francis B. (1907). "Genealogy and Personal Memories of Mercer County, New Jersey". Volume 2, Mercer County, New Jersey: Lewis Publishing Company.
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