Herringswell, Suffolk

Herringswell, Suffolk

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Herringswell is a village and civil parish in West Suffolk, 6 miles (9.7 km) from Newmarket.

In 2005 it had a population of 190. In 2007 there were 128 voters there.

A memorial, quoted as a "lush young maiden" by Sam Mortlock in his “Popular Guide to Suffolk Churches”, is on the tomb of Herbert Davies, Lord of the Manor of Herringswell, who died in 1899.

In 2006 a village council successfully opposed the development of a proposed stadium, Watermark, by combining its advocacy with those of four surrounding communities.

Herringswell Manor is located in the community.

The Abbot of Bury St Edmunds originally owned the land and by the early 20th century it was the country house of a Blackheath, London family, of business person Arthur Ballance and his wife's family, the Peeks.

The Ballances/Peeks used a mock-Tudor manor house built in 1901. The site was later used as a school for children of US soldiers, and in the early 1980s as a Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh ashram.

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Herringswell residents formed a council when they deemed the ashram to be gaining too much influence. The Shi-Tennoji School in UK, a Japanese Buddhist boarding school, was in operation there beginning in 1985 and ending on July 17, 2000. The former campus includes the Herringswell Manor, built in 1901. The school closed due to declining student figures. The manor house as well as the other buildings on the property have now been converted into flats.

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