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| Claydon | |
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  Claydon Location within Suffolk | |
| Population | 2,197 (2011)[1] |
| OS grid reference | TM1350 |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | IPSWICH |
| Postcode district | IP6 |
| Police | Suffolk |
| Fire | Suffolk |
| Ambulance | East of England |
| UK Parliament | |
Claydon is a village just north of Ipswich in Suffolk, England. The meaning of the name is "clay-on-the-hill".
The village gives its name to the hundred of Bosmere-and-Claydon, one of the 21 administrative districts into which Suffolk was divided for administrative purposes between Saxon and Victorian times.[2]
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
- ^ Walter Skeat (1913). The Place-names of Suffolk.