Charsfield | |
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Church of St Peter, Charsfield | |
Location within Suffolk | |
Population | 342 (2021) |
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Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Woodbridge |
Postcode district | IP13 |
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.