Charsfield

Charsfield
Church of St Peter, Charsfield
Charsfield is located in Suffolk
Charsfield
Charsfield
Location within Suffolk
Population342 (2021)
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townWoodbridge
Postcode districtIP13
List of places
UK
England
Suffolk
52°09′40″N 1°17′32″E / 52.161096°N 1.292329°E / 52.161096; 1.292329

Charsfield is a small Suffolk village of 342 residents, 3 miles (4.8 km) from Wickham Market, 7 miles (11 km) from Woodbridge and 12 miles (19 km) from Ipswich and is located near the villages of Debach and Dallinghoo. A civil parish in East Anglia, Charsfield was famously used as one of the key locations in the 1974 film Akenfield, based loosely upon the book Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by Ronald Blythe (1969). Charsfield hosted the first Greenbelt festival - an annual festival of arts, faith and justice - on a pig farm just outside the village over the August 1974 bank holiday weekend.