Dallinghoo
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Location

Dallinghoo is a village some 3 miles (4.5 km) north of Woodbridge
Woodbridge, Suffolk
Woodbridge is a town in Suffolk, East Anglia, England. It is in the East of England, not far from the coast. It lies along the River Deben, with a population of about 7,480. The town is served by Woodbridge railway station on the Ipswich-Lowestoft East Suffolk Line. Woodbridge is twinned with...

, Suffolk
Suffolk
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, England
England
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Formed from Church Road (west) and Pound Hill to the south and branches NE after the centre of the village.

Its church was originally a large building with a central tower but the chancel has since been destroyed. The Church also had connections with nearby Letheringham Abbey.

Dallinghoo is also the birthplace of Francis Light
Francis Light
Captain Francis Light was the founder of the British colony of Penang and its capital George Town in 1786.-Early years:...

, founder of Penang
Penang
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 in Malaysia and father of William Light
William Light
Colonel William Light was a British military officer and the first Surveyor-General of the Colony of South Australia...

 who founded Adelaide
Adelaide
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 in Australia
Australia
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Dallinghoo Village Hall (TM2654) is off Pound Hill a little north of the village.

The Oldest and most important house in Dallinghoo is Whitehouse Farm.

Dallinghoo Hall (TM2754) is 1 km SE from the village.

Press

Dallinghoo has featured in the press in 2009 after £500,000 worth of Iceni
Iceni
The Iceni or Eceni were a British tribe who inhabited an area of East Anglia corresponding roughly to the modern-day county of Norfolk between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD...

gold coins were found in a field.

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