Iken
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Iken is a small village and civil parish in the sandlands of the English county of Suffolk, an area formerly of heathland and sheep pasture. It is near the estuary of the River Alde on the North Sea coast and is located south east of Snape and due north of Orford. To its west is Tunstall Forest, created since the 1920s by the Forestry Commission and now part of the Sandlings Forest.
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Place details
- Locality
- East Suffolk
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Iken
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.region
- East of England
- UK place.population
- 101
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.post_town
- Woodbridge
- UK place.postcode_area
- IP
- UK place.postcode_district
- IP12
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Suffolk Coastal
- UK place.shire_district
- East Suffolk
- UK place.shire_county
- Suffolk
- UK place.hide_services
- Yes
- UK place.static_image_name
- St Botolph's Church, Iken - geograph.org.uk - 66703.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Botolph's Church, Iken
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Iken is a small village and civil parish in the sandlands of the English county of Suffolk, an area formerly of heathland and sheep pasture. It is near the estuary of the River Alde on the North Sea coast and is located south east of Snape and due north of Orford. To its west is Tunstall Forest, created since the 1920s by the Forestry Commission and now part of the Sandlings Forest.
Iken was part of Sudbourne Hall Estate. It was composed largely of tenant farms and cottages for farm workers. The owners of the estate valued the area more for shooting than farming, and a decoy pond was built at Iken in the eighteenth century. Since the break up of the Estate Iken has remained a "close" village: only a handful of new houses have been built and no council houses have ever been built.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Iken” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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