Duddenhoe End

The picturesque hamlet sits in the northwest corner of the county and has its share of old world thatched cottages.

Local clay was used for making the black dye used by the Anglo-Flemish wool trade. One merchant was William Cade who died in 1166 of East Anglia. He probably used the old Roman road once called Cades Lane before becoming Beards Lane. Another use for the clay was the making of clay pipes.

Duddas Hall was held by the Saxon Dudda, Earl of Wessex in 1066, after which the first Norman name appears and the name changed to Duddenhoe Grange and placed in the hands of the Abbots of Tilty Abbey. After Henry VIII demolished the monasteries it became the property of the Earls of Suffolk, then Lord Audley de Waulden as part of Audley End estate.

The green was known as Bridge Green and can still be seen on survey maps.