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A walk in Long Melford
The first English village documented end to end - a four-hour walk, a welcome at the church, and the place itself.
Long Melford is a Suffolk wool village on the clay of East Anglia, with a green a mile long and a church the size of a cathedral. In April 2026 we walked the village with two members of the Long Melford Historical and Archaeological Society. This thread gathers the three archive entries that came out of that visit - the walk itself, an encounter on the morning of a wedding, and the area hub that keeps accruing as we return.
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A Walk Through Long Melford with Julie and Melonie
Four hours through the village with Julie Thomson and Melonie Clubb of the Long Melford Historical and Archaeological Society. The historian and the rememberer, in two voices, walking the place they carry.
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Welcomed at Holy Trinity
The Rector of Holy Trinity, Rev’d Matthew Lawson, came out of the church on the morning of a wedding to welcome us. A one-line joke, an English parish welcome, and a frame of the archive being made.
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Long Melford
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