Icklingham
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Icklingham is a village in Suffolk
, England
.It takes its name from an Iron Age tribe, the Iceni, who lived in the area and has the remains of a Roman settlement to the South. It was also one of the largest Anglo-Saxon settlements in the area and can demonstrate nearby occupation to Neolithic times through research carried out by Liverpool University over many years.
Te village straddles the River Lark, a tributary to the Great Ouse. Once navigable up to Bury St Edmunds, with locks installed, these are now redundant, with the remains of at least one lock visible near Icklingham. The river is the reason for the siting of Icklingham's greatest industry, the local flour mill.
Suffolk
Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
.It takes its name from an Iron Age tribe, the Iceni, who lived in the area and has the remains of a Roman settlement to the South. It was also one of the largest Anglo-Saxon settlements in the area and can demonstrate nearby occupation to Neolithic times through research carried out by Liverpool University over many years.
Te village straddles the River Lark, a tributary to the Great Ouse. Once navigable up to Bury St Edmunds, with locks installed, these are now redundant, with the remains of at least one lock visible near Icklingham. The river is the reason for the siting of Icklingham's greatest industry, the local flour mill.