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Long Melford from Mesolithic Stone Age to the present day, Long Melford has a fascinating history to discover and fortunately it has been well documented over the centuries from BC - the present day.  There is a lot to say.

 

BC as long ago as 8,300BC people were living in what is now Long Melford. 

 

So we have, the Romans, the Anglo Saxons, Domesday Book, the Middle Ages (5th-15th century) which include 'The Black Death and 'The peasants revolt', Hall houses and the Reformation, Kings ,Queens, the Civil War and the Plague, Bays and Says, Flax, Irish linen, Riot Acts and the Great War, herbs and oils, fantastic art galleries and antiques.

 

there is so much detail on Long Melford it actually has a second page.

 

A day or two here is a must.