Shelley is a small village and civil parish in Suffolk, England. Located on the west bank of the River Brett around three miles south of Hadleigh, it is part of Babergh district. The population of the village was only minimal at the 2011 Census and is included in the civil parish of Higham.
| Shelley | |
|---|---|
 All Saints' Church, Shelley | |
  Shelley Location within Suffolk | |
| Population | 50 (2005)[1] |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Ipswich |
| Postcode district | IP7 |
Most of the parish is within the Dedham Vale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Other points of interest are Shelley Hall, a listed building with a protected moat, once owned by the Partridge family,[2][3] and Snakes Wood, which is classified as Ancient Woodland and serves as a nature reserve.
The village is first recorded before the Norman conquest in the S1051 charter of 1000AD in the will of Ælfflæd. The Domesday Book of 1086 records the population of Shelley in 1086 to be 42 households along with 8 cattle, 32 pigs, 200 sheep, 3 other animals, 28 acres of meadow, 1,000 woodland pigs, two mills.[4]
Barker writes that there is an unusually long hedge in Shelley made up of coppiced lime trees. He writes that this follows the boundaries of remnants of nineteenth-century clearances of some of the ancient forest. Hedges of this sort are known as assart hedges.[5]
Elizabeth Gosnold Tilney, sister of Jamestown colonist and explorer Bartholomew Gosnold, is buried at All Saints' Church, Shelley. An attempt was made to use DNA from her supposed remains to confirm the identity of the body of her brother in Jamestown, but it was inconclusive as it could not be confirmed which body was hers.[6]
References edit
- ^ Estimates of Total Population of areas of Suffolk Archived 2008-12-19 at the Wayback Machine Suffolk County Council
- ^ Suffolk Manorial Families, vol. 2, ed. Joseph James Muskett, p. 168
- ^ East Anglian Miscellany, issue 1, part 285, 1965, pp. 14, 35
- ^ "Shelley | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
- ^ Barker, Hugh Hedge Britannia 2012 Bloomsbury, London p26-7
- ^ Bone test may solve 'US founder' mystery | UK news | The Guardian
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