Rishangles

Also known as Rishangles, Suffolk

Rishangles is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England.

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Place details

Locality: Mid Suffolk
Region: England
Country: United Kingdom

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Key facts

UK place.country: England
UK place.official_name: Rishangles
UK place.population: 80
UK place.shire_district: Mid Suffolk
UK place.shire_county: Suffolk
UK place.region: East of England
UK place.post_town: Eye
UK place.postcode_district: IP23
UK place.postcode_area: IP
UK place.static_image: Former Church of St Margaret, Rishangles, Suffolk - from the south.jpg
UK place.static_image_width: 240px
UK place.static_image_caption: St Margaret's Rishangles: the former church, now a private residence

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: civil parish
Country: United Kingdom
Located in: Mid Suffolk
Population: 92
Image: Former Church of St Margaret, Rishangles, Suffolk - from the south.jpg

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Commons category: Rishangles
postal code: IP23
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Rishangles is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England.

The place-name 'Rishangles' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Risangra in the ancient hundred of Hartismere. The name means 'brushwood slope', the second element being related to the word 'hanger' meaning 'hanging wood'.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rishangles” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.