Lavenham

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Lavenham
Lavenham High Street.jpg
Coordinates 52 ° 6 ′  N , 0 ° 48 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′  N , 0 ° 48 ′  E
OS National Grid TL915491
Lavenham (England)
Lavenham
Lavenham
Residents 1750 (as of 2001)
administration
Post town SUDBURY
ZIP code section CO10
prefix 01787
Part of the country England
region East of England
Shire county Suffolk
District Babergh
Civil Parish Lavenham

Lavenham is a market town of 1738 in Suffolk , part of East Anglia , the English peninsula between the Thames estuary in the south and The Wash in the north.

The place is known for its half-timbered architecture and for its magnificent late Gothic parish church, which was completed around 1530 . Like the guild house of the wool merchants, this was built in the Tudor period, when the place and the whole region became very prosperous through the wool trade. Since it was financed with income from this trade, the church is also counted among the Wool Churches .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Neighborhood Statistics