Mutford is a small village and civil parish

Civil parish

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 located south-west of Lowestoft

Lowestoft

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 in the English

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 county

County

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 of Suffolk

Suffolk

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. The village is located between Lowestoft and Beccles

Beccles

Beccles is a market town and civil parish in the Waveney District of the English county of Suffolk. The town is shown on the milestone as from London via the A145 Blythburgh and A12 road, northeast of London as the crow flies, southeast of Norwich, and north northeast of the county town of...

 in a rural area south of the A146

A146 road

The A146 is a road that runs between two of East Anglia's largest population centres - Norwich in Norfolk and Lowestoft in Suffolk.The entire route has primary classification and as such has been improved over the years, although traffic levels can lead to delays.- Norwich :Before the construction...

 at Barnby

Barnby, Suffolk

Barnby is a village and civil parish in the Waveney district of Suffolk, England. The village is six miles west of Lowestoft, and runs into the village of North Cove which constitutes a separate parish. The village contains a pub - "The Swan" - and a gardening centre.Church of England benefice of...

. Nearby villages include Gisleham

Gisleham

Gisleham is a small village located on the western edge of Lowestoft in the English county of Suffolk. It is situated between Carlton Colville and Kessingland. Gisleham church, Holy Trinity, is one of 38 existing round-tower churches in Suffolk....

 and Henstead

Henstead

Henstead is near Kessingland and the A12 in Suffolk in England. It has a church called Church of St Mary which is a Grade I listed building.In 1771 the landscape artist, Thomas Hearne spent six weeks with the young George Beaumont in Henstead at the home of the latters tutor at Eton, Revd Charles...

. The village gave it's name to the Half Hundred of Mutford

Mutford and Lothingland (hundred)

Mutford and Lothingland was a hundred of Suffolk, with an area of . Lowestoft Ness, the most easterly point of Great Britain fell within its bounds.Мutford and Lothingland Hundred formed the north-eastern corner of Suffolk...

 which is named in the Domesday Book

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.

The village consists of a crossroads, at which there is a village store with a Post Office and a few residential streets. The Village hall

Village hall

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 has a large area of land situated at the back with football matches played regularly. The church of Mutford St Andrew is one of 38 existing round-tower church

Round-tower church

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es in Suffolk and is a Grade I Listed Building

Grade I listed buildings in Waveney

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.

Sir Stanley Rous

Stanley Rous

Sir Stanley Ford Rous, CBE was the 6th President of FIFA, serving from 1961 to 1974. He also served as secretary of the Football Association from 1934 to 1962 and was an international referee.-Early Life:...

, former president of FIFA

FIFA

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, was born in Mutford in 1895.

Also born in the village was Bill Crooks

Bill Crooks

William Crooks , known as Bill Crooks was manager of Eastwoodhill Arboretum, Ngatapa, Gisborne, from 1967-1974...

, manager of Eastwoodhill Arboretum

Eastwoodhill Arboretum

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, Ngatapa, Gisborne, New Zealand

New Zealand

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 from 1967-1974.

External links

• Mutford Village website
• Website with photos of Mutford St Andrew, a round-tower church
  Round-tower church
  Round-tower churches are a type of church found mainly in England, almost solely in East Anglia; of about 185 surviving examples in the country, 124 are in Norfolk, 38 in Suffolk, 6 in Essex, 3 in Sussex and 2 each in Cambridgeshire and Berkshire. There is evidence of about twenty round-tower...