Weybread

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Weybread is a small village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England, right on the Norfolk border. The River Waveney forms the county boundary.

The parish church, St Andrew’s, is notable for its round tower, one of 38 in Suffolk. The tower is Norman, while most of the church dates from the 13th to 15th centuries. It features gargoyles on the tower, perpendicular Gothic windows, and a knapped flint porch.

Weybread used to have three pubs, but now only the Weybread Crown remains.

In the Domesday Book of 1086, Weybread had 65 households, making it one of the larger settlements of the time. Land was owned by several lords, including William the Conqueror and the Abbey at Bury St Edmunds, and there were about four and three-quarter mills.

Weybread was once part of Hoxne Hundred, an old administrative area.

In 2016, Peter and Sylvia Stuart from Mill Lane were reported missing; Peter’s body was found, but Sylvia’s has never been located. Ali Qazimaj was later convicted of their double murder.

A notable person from Weybread is Alfred Ablett, born in 1830, who received the Victoria Cross for bravery in the Crimean War and is buried in the churchyard of St Andrew’s. He was the first soldier from Suffolk to be awarded the VC.