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Further Information on support during the COVID19 virus is available in Leaflet2
Further information on support during COVID19 virus is available in Leaflet3 being delivered to villagers
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This website is dedicated to the work of Shimpling Parish Council.
You will find information on Parish Councillors, publically available formal governance and financial Council Records, including minutes of all meetings and information about all of the official public activities of the Council.
There is also a Noticeboard with regular news and updates about the Parish Council and the community, together with an Events section containing details of upcoming meetings.
You can also contact the Clerk or individual Councillors through this website to raise any questions or issues relevant to the parish of Shimpling.
Please visit shimpling.onesuffolk.net and the Wikipedia entry on Shimpling for more specific information about the village of Shimpling itself and other community activities.
The Parish of Shimpling in the county of Suffolk is in the Chadacre ward of Babergh District Council, and and lies within the parliamentary constituency of South Suffolk.
Our local parliamentary representative at Westminster is James Cartlidge MP.
Councillors Stephen Plumb and Michael Holt from Babergh District Council and Richard Kemp from Suffolk County Council regularly attend meetings of Shimpling Parish Council.
Shimpling was described in 1870-72 in John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazeteer of England and Wales as:
"SHIMPLING, or Shimplingthorne, a parish, with a village, in Sudbury district, Suffolk; 4 miles NW by W of Lavenham r. station. It has a post-office under Bury-St-Edmunds. Acres 2,698. Real property £3,640. Pop., 500, Houses 111. The manor, with Chadacre Hall, belongs to Miss Hallifax. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value £600. Patron, the Rev A. H. Bolton. The church is plain."
Historical information and map sourced from:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Shimpling, in Babergh and Suffolk | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time. URL: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/7672
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