Stoke-by-Nayland

Stoke-by-Nayland is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district, in the county Suffolk, England, close to the border with Essex. The parish includes the village Withermarsh Green and the hamlets Thorington Street and Scotland Street. The village has many cottages and timber-framed houses, all surrounding a recreation field. Possibly once the site of a monastery, the civil parish had a population of 703 at the 2001 Census, falling to 682 at the 2011 Census.

==History== The village was first recorded on 946 in the will of Ælfgar, an earl, where he endowed land to a community in the village, possibly a monastery.