| Mettingham | |
|---|---|
 All Saints' Church | |
  Mettingham Location within Suffolk | |
| Area | 6 km2 (2.3 sq mi) [1] |
| Population | 211 (2011)[1] |
| • Density | 35/km2 (91/sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | TM359900 |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Bungay |
| Postcode district | NR35 |
| Dialling code | 01986 |
| UK Parliament | |
Mettingham is a village and civil parish in the north of the English county of Suffolk. It is 2 miles (3.2 km) east of the market town of Bungay in the East Suffolk district. It had a population of 211 at the 2011 United Kingdom census.[1]
The northern boundary of the parish is formed by the River Waveney which marks the county boundary with Norfolk. The northern section of the parish is within the area of The Broads National Park. The parish borders the parishes of Bungay, Shipmeadow, Ilketshall St John and the Norfolk parishes of Broome and Ellingham. The B1062 Bungay to Beccles road runs through the centre of the parish.[2]
In the 1870s, Mettingham was described as:
- "a village and a parish in Wangford district, Suffolk. The village stands near the river Waveney, at the boundary with Norfolk, 2 miles E of Bungay r. station; is a scattered place; and has a postoffice under Bungay."[3]
Its church, All Saints, is a round-tower church and about a mile to the south, Mettingham Castle comprises the ruins of a moated medieval fortified manor house, with a medieval monastic college, Mettingham College, in its grounds.[4] The college was relocated to the site in 1394 and was dissolved in 1542 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
- ^ a b c Village profile: Mettingham, East Suffolk District Council, 2019. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
- ^ Mettingham, Healthy Suffolk, 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
- ^ Wilson, John Marius (1870). Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales. Edinburgh: A. Fullerton & Co. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
- ^ Historic England. "Mettingham Castle (391619)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 15 June 2011.