Troston
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Troston is a village in the English
county of Suffolk
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It is around five miles north-north-east of Bury St Edmunds. Its parish church
contains rare mediaeval wall paintings including dragon
-slaying and the Martyrdom of St Edmund. It has one Public House called The Bull.
The village shop, formerly a Wesleyan Chapel, has been closed for some time, and is now a private residence.
The centre of the village, surrounded by farms, is characterised by housing estates built through the 1950's to 1970's, with minor, more localised, expansion since.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
county of Suffolk
Suffolk
Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...
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It is around five miles north-north-east of Bury St Edmunds. Its parish church
Parish church
A parish church , in Christianity, is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches....
contains rare mediaeval wall paintings including dragon
Dragon
A dragon is a legendary creature, typically with serpentine or reptilian traits, that feature in the myths of many cultures. There are two distinct cultural traditions of dragons: the European dragon, derived from European folk traditions and ultimately related to Greek and Middle Eastern...
-slaying and the Martyrdom of St Edmund. It has one Public House called The Bull.
The village shop, formerly a Wesleyan Chapel, has been closed for some time, and is now a private residence.
The centre of the village, surrounded by farms, is characterised by housing estates built through the 1950's to 1970's, with minor, more localised, expansion since.