Beyton is a village and

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in the

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district of the

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. The village is around east of

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, south-east of

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and north-west of

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. The main

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to Bury St Edmunds road used to pass through the village – the modern A14 dual carriageway bypasses the village to the north.All Saints, Beyton
Suffolk Churches website. Retrieved 2016-04-09.

History

According to

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the meaning of the name is homestead by brook or Beaga's homestead. The village is mentioned in the

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of 1086 as Begoton or Begatona.Beyton
Domesday Baook Online. Retrieved 2016-04-09. The Domesday village was held by Hugh de Montfort and was a very small settlement with a taxable value of just 0.3 geld units.Beyton
Open Domesday. Retrieved 2016-04-09. The village was a farming community located on the glacial clay of 'High' Suffolk. It grew up around the village green and the along the main

road. The road was turnpiked in 1711 and became an accident 'black spot' in modern times. The village having been bypassed in 1978 with the modern A14 running to the north of the village. A maltings was present in the village in 1855 and a post mill, which had originally been located at Wickhambrook, was moved to the village in 1830. A conservation area was established in the village in 1973. Beyton Parish Council made both local and national news in 2015 after the chairman's wife blocked a member of the public legally filming a council meeting. The police were called to the scene.

Governance

Beyton parish forms part of the Mid Suffolk district.

All Saints’ Church

The parish church, All Saints, is a Grade II*

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.Church of All Saints, Beyton
British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2016-04-09. It is one of 38 existing

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es in Suffolk. The church tower is believed to be Saxon in origin, although the present tower has been dated to the 13th century. The building was heavily restored in the 19th century. The church is not mentioned in the Domesday Book entry for the village.''Conservation Area Appraisal'', Mid Suffolk District Council, 2009.
Available online
), retrieved 2016-04-09.

Education

Beyton Middle School enrolled about 700 pupils from age 9 to 13 with the majority of students coming from surrounding villages. The school closed in July 2014 as part of a reorganisation of schools to a two tier structure by

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that saw students stay in primary school to age 11 where they would then transfer on to secondary schools, mostly

Thurston Community College Thurston Community College is a Mixed-sex education, co-educational secondary school and sixth form located in Thurston, Suffolk, Thurston, Suffolk, England. As of 2018, it has 1,733 students aged 11–18 drawn from the local village and surrou ...

, Stowupland High School or Bury St Edmunds County High School. The site is now used by Thurston Community College as part of its sixth form provision.

Notable people

* Robert Dewing (1863–1934), cricketer and army officer

References

External links

{{authority control Villages in Suffolk Mid Suffolk District Civil parishes in Suffolk Thedwastre Hundred