Westerfield

Westerfield is a village in Suffolk, England.[1] It lies about two miles north of the centre of Ipswich in the East Suffolk District, and is served by Westerfield railway station on the Ipswich–Lowestoft East Suffolk Line.

This article is about the village in England. For the village in Scotland, see Westerfield, Shetland.

Westerfield

Westerfield, Church of St Mary Magdalene
Westerfield
Location within Suffolk
Area3.07 km2 (1.19 sq mi)
Population442 (2011)
• Density144/km2 (370/sq mi)
OS grid referenceTM1747
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townIPSWICH
Postcode districtIP6
Dialling code01473
PoliceSuffolk
FireSuffolk
AmbulanceEast of England
UK Parliament

Amenities

Westerfield has two public houses, The Swan in northern Westerfield and The Railway in the south. Both serve food and contribute largely to local society.

Central Westerfield has a village green adjacent to the medieval parish Church of St Mary Magdalene,[2] where the East Anglian cleric and Hebrew scholar Cyprian Thomas Rust (1808–1895) is among those buried.[3] It has fine stained glass windows, of which St Mary of Magdala was designed by William Morris.[2]

Population

The population of Westerfield with Culpho was estimated at 486 in 2019[4] and measured at 442 in the 2011 Census.[5]

References
  1. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 169 Ipswich & The Naze (Clacton-on-Sea) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2014. ISBN 9780319229231.
  2. Description and history. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
  3. "Rust, Thomas Cyprian" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  4. City Population. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
  5. "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 18 September 2015.



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