Saxmundham
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Saxmundham ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England. It is set in the valley of the River Fromus about north-east of Ipswich and west of the coast at Sizewell. The town is bypassed by the main A12 road between London and Lowestoft. The town is served by Saxmundham railway station on the East Suffolk Line between Ipswich and Lowestoft. In 2021 the parish had a population of 4,777.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Saxmundham
- UK place.population
- 3,644
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 Census)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Saxmundham
- UK place.shire_district
- East Suffolk
- UK place.region
- East of England
- UK place.shire_county
- Suffolk
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Suffolk Coastal
- UK place.post_town
- SAXMUNDHAM
- UK place.postcode_district
- IP17
- UK place.postcode_area
- IP
- UK place.dial_code
- 01728
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TM381632
- UK place.static_image_name
- St.John the Baptist Church, Saxmundham - geograph.org.uk - 1193447.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St John the Baptist Church, Saxmundham
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- East Suffolk
- Population
- 2712
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- St.John the Baptist Church, Saxmundham - geograph.org.uk - 1193447.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01728
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- OS grid reference
- TM381632
- postal code
- IP17
- Commons category
- Saxmundham
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Governance
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- Notable residents
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Saxmundham ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England. It is set in the valley of the River Fromus about north-east of Ipswich and west of the coast at Sizewell. The town is bypassed by the main A12 road between London and Lowestoft. The town is served by Saxmundham railway station on the East Suffolk Line between Ipswich and Lowestoft. In 2021 the parish had a population of 4,777.
==Governance== The district electoral ward also has the name Saxmundham. Its population at the 2011 census was 4,913.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Saxmundham” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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