Stoven is a village and former civil parish now in the parish of Brampton with Stoven, in the East Suffolk district of the English county of Suffolk. It is located approximately north east of Halesworth and south of Beccles. In 1961 the parish had a population of 110.Population Statistics Stoven AP/CP through time, A Vision of Britain. Retrieved 17 January 2020. On 1 April 1987 the parish was abolished and merged with Brampton to form "Brampton with Stoven"The Waveney (Parishes) Order 1987, Local Government Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 17 January 2020. and the population of the expanded parish was 427 at the 2011 United Kingdom census.Village profile: Brampton with Stoven, East Suffolk District Council, October 2019. Retrieved 8 February 2020. Brampton is located just to the west, Uggeshall to the south and Sotterley to the north.
The parish church is dedicated to St Margaret and is a Grade II* listed building.The Suffolk Churches site. Retrieved 19 April 2009 It was threatened with demolition and sale in the late 1980s and early 1990s before being listed when its medieval structure was revealed. The church re-opened in 1996 and restoration work is believed to be ongoing.
Stoven has no services other than the church.Brampton with Stoven, Healthy Suffolk, 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2020. Children attend primary school in Brampton and high school in Beccles. The local public house, a 17th-century Grade II listed building,Cherry Tree, Suffolk Pubs, Campaign for Real Ale. Retrieved 12 February 2021 re-opened in July 2008 after having been closed for three and a half years, but closed again in early 2011 and has been converted to residential use.
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