| Walsham le Willows | |
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 Village sign of Walsham le Willows | |
  Walsham le Willows Location withinSuffolk | |
| Population | 1,213 (2011)[1] |
| OS grid reference | TM004713 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | BURY ST EDMUNDS |
| Postcode district | IP31 |
| Dialling code | 01359 |
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| 52°18′11″N0°56′17″E / 52.303°N 0.938°E /52.303; 0.938 | |
Walsham le Willows is a village andcivil parish in theMid Suffolk district, inSuffolk, England, located around 3 miles (4 km) south-east ofStanton.Queen Elizabeth I granted Walsham le Willows toNicholas Bacon,Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, in 1559. In 2011 the parish had a population of 1213.
Because the village is documented unusually fully in surviving records of the time, theCambridge historian John Hatcher chose to use it as the setting for his semi-fictionalised account of the effects of themid-14th century plague epidemic in England,The Black Death: A Personal History (2008).[2]
Sacrifice Pole
Dating from ancient time, a wooden beam has been stored in buildings around the village. Each year, at the start of February, around the time ofImbolc the wood is moved to a new building. The name Sacrifice Pole may relate to the era ofplague but, equally, may not.
Walsham le Willows has aNon-League football clubWalsham-le-Willows F.C. currently in theEastern Counties League who play at Summer Road.
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