Round Maple
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Round Maple is a small hamlet
Hamlet (place)
A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...

 in the Babergh
Babergh
Babergh is a local government district in Suffolk, England. Its council headquarters is based in Hadleigh, whilst its largest town is Sudbury.The district was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the Borough of Sudbury, Hadleigh urban district, Cosford Rural District, Melford Rural District and...

 district, in the county of Suffolk
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. It is located near the larger hamlet of Mill Green
Mill Green, Suffolk
Mill Green is a large hamlet in the parish of Edwardstone, in the Babergh District, in the English county of Suffolk. It has a Millennium Green and a wood called Mill Wood.- Features :...

, in the civil parish
Civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation and, where they are found, the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties...

 of Edwardstone
Edwardstone
Edwardstone is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England. The parish contains the hamlets of Mill Green, Priory Green, Round Maple and Sherbourne Street, and the Edwardstone Woods, a Site of Special Scientific Interest...

. Round Maple has no amenities, There are four Grade II listed buildings in the hamlet, all timber-framed and plastered: Flushing Farm, an 18th or early 19th century building; Little Thatch, a renovated 17th to 18th century single-storey building; Quicks Farm, a house with a red brick front, gable ends; and Seasons, a single storey thatched
Thatching
Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge , rushes, or heather, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof. It is a very old roofing method and has been used in both tropical and temperate climates...

building with attics..

External links

  • http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1904062
  • http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1904083
  • http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1087442
  • http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2041834
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