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In medieval times this was a village of small farms and cottages scattered round a common called Shaddenfelde Green where in 1257 a grant for a fair was given.
An important packway from London to Norwich and Yarmouth via Beccles passed by way of the Elizabethan Hall to Bow Inn.
Along this road came the Cromwellian soldiers to London and met opposition at the inn and in a farmyard.
Two were killed and were buried in the churchyard as recorded in the church register which dates from 1539.
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- Landmark