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and welcome to Easton.
If you are a resident hopefully you will find something to
interest and inform you.
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you will enjoy finding out about our village or updating your
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HEALTH
SMART
In
conjunction with NHS Suffolk
Are you aged between 40 and 74
years?
Would you like a free health
check?
Health Smart is offering free
health check for people in this age group to highlight those deemed
most at risk of developing cardiovascular disease, stroke, type 2
diabetes and kidney disease.
The check takes 20 minutes and
will consist of:
· Straightforward questions on
health and diet, exercise habits and family medical
history
· Height and weight
measurements
· A simple finger-prick blood test
for cholesterol and glucose levels
· A personal assessment, setting
out the individual’s level of risk and what they can do to reduce
this
If you are interested
please contact the Clerk on 746162 or
pc@easton.suffolk.gov.uk
If there is sufficient interest arrangements will be made for
Health Smart to visit the village. |
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Check out page 2 of
Easton's history, memories of a Gamekeeper on the Easton Estate
(just click the link at the top of the first history
page). |
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POT HOLE
REPORTING.......click
here....
http://www.suffolkcoastal.gov.uk/atoz/potholes.htm
or call 0845 606
6171. |
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The village
green, looking towards Wickham Market.
Easton lies in the gentle valley of the river Deben some two and a
half miles from Wickham Market to the southeast and five miles from
Framlingham to the north. The river marks the boundary between
Letheringham to the southwest and Easton. The main street of the
village lies north of the river which bends in a loop quite close
to the centre of the village and then away again. There are many
acres of water meadows on either side of the river, which often
flood. To the north east of the village the land rises to a plateau
where the Cricket Club, Bowls Club and Cemerty are
located.
Historically the village is mentioned in the
Domesday and was linked to the manor of Martley until 1627, when
Sir Arthur Wingfield made the 150 acre estate his home. In 1688
Easton was purchased by the Prince of Orange for the Earl of
Rochford. The fifth Earl made many improvements before he died in
1830. These included surrounding the Easton Estate and house with
its famous "crinkle-crankle wall".
Part of the crinkle-crankle wall.
On the death of the fifth Earl, the estate went to the Duke of
Hamilton, who rarely lived there and left the affairs in the hands
of an agent who lived in the 17 Century Agent’s house next to the
White Horse Inn. Lady Hamilton was responsible for the gothic
windows in many of the Easton properties, for the Victorian dairy
and other buildings at the Easton Farm Park, also the school, the
Village Hall and many other features such as the round
houses.
The original entrance gates to the
Manor house.
The Estate house was demolished fairly early in the 1920s with many
estate buildings conveted into dwellings. A new group of houses
were built in the 1960s in Harriers Walk (behind the
Wall).
The village consisits of approximately 141 houses
of varying ages from half-timbererd to modern and has a large
church befitting the Earls of Rochford and the
Hamiltons.
The centre of the village around
the green, the church and the pub is a conservation area and the
village is enhanced by an open space more or less opposite the pub,
part of which is used as a car park.
One of the cottages overlooking the village green,
the White Horse Inn on the right of the picture, circa 1938.
Easton also benefits from a highly regarded Primary School
(www.eastonprimary.org.uk
) and preschool / nursery groups
(http://www.eastonpreschool.org.uk/)
are held in the village hall.
The village is also home to the Easton Harriers
pack of hounds.
Colour photographs by Paul Davey,
see www.suffolkcam.co.uk
for more
info.