Westerfield

This article is about the village in England. For other uses, see Westerfield (disambiguation).

Westerfield is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England.^[1] It lies about two miles north of the centre of Ipswich and is served by Westerfield railway station on the Ipswich–Lowestoft East Suffolk Line.

Westerfield
Westerfield, Church of St Mary Magdalene
Westerfield Location within Suffolk
Area	3.07 km2 (1.19 sq mi)
Population	442 (2011)
• Density	144/km2 (370/sq mi)
OS grid reference	TM1747
District	East Suffolk
Shire county	Suffolk
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	IPSWICH
Postcode district	IP6
Dialling code	01473
Police	Suffolk
Fire	Suffolk
Ambulance	East of England
UK Parliament	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
List of places UK England Suffolk 52.083°N 1.172°E / 52.083; 1.172

Amenities

Westerfield has two public houses, The Swan in northern Westerfield^[2] and The Westerfield Railway in the south.^[3] Both serve meals and contribute much to local social activity.

Central Westerfield has a village green adjacent to the medieval parish Church of St Mary Magdalene,^[4][5] where the East Anglian cleric and Hebrew scholar Cyprian Thomas Rust (1808–1895) is among those buried.^[6] It has fine stained glass windows, of which St Mary of Magdala was designed by William Morris.^[4]

Population

The population of Westerfield with Culpho was estimated at 486 in 2019^[7] and measured at 442 in the 2011 Census.^[8]

History

Westerfield was in the Bosmere and Claydon hundred, in 1894 it became part of Woodbridge Rural District which became part of the administrative county of East Suffolk in 1889. On 31 December 1894 the parish of "Westerfield in Ipswich" was formed from the part of the parish in the County borough of Ipswich,^[9] on 1 April 1952 5 acres was transferred to Rushmere St Andrew parish.^[10] In 1974 it became part of Suffolk Coastal non-metropolitan district in the non-metropolitan county of Suffolk. On 1 April 1986 land was transferred from the Ipswich district to Westerfield and a parish council was formed.^[11] In 2019 it became part of East Suffolk district.