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PALGRAVE is an attractive Suffolk village situated 1 mile inside
the Norfolk and Suffolk border, close to the market town of Diss in
the middle of rural East Anglia, it is 105 miles from the center of
London, and lies approximately in the center of a triangle formed
by the City of Norwich, Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds all of which
are about 21 miles away and connected by major roads.
Until it was bypassed in 1995, its main West/East road was the
important link between Bury-St-Edmunds and Great Yarmouth which had
historical significance dating from the time of Domesday to more
recent times when it served as a busy summer route to the Suffolk
coast for many holiday
makers.
The church of St Peter, with its Norman font, has a fine painted
hammerbeam roof of circa 1400, and was built with the knapped flint
facing so typical of Suffolk churches at that time. The village has
two "greens" both being maintained in their original condition, one
of which fronts onto the village pond, and surrounded by dwellings
of mixed design, dating from the early 16th century.
Although the village
sadly now contains no shops or post office, its close
proximity to the Diss town centre, permits pedestrians to
undertake a pleasant rural walk down into the town where many
shops and facilities are situated. Palgrave has 606
inhabitants and at one time was known as the "artists village"
as many East Anglian painters lived there.
Many of the inhabitants of Palgrave are active with the
affairs of the Parish Council, Community Centre, and the church,
such that the village enjoys a busy calendar of events suitable for
all ages, all of which are published monthly in its own local paper
the "Palgrave Star".
One of the many ponds in the village,
this one is on The Green.