Aldham is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk, England. Located around west of Ipswich, in 2005 it had a population of 200, reducing to 175 at the 2011 Census.
History According to Eilert Ekwall the meaning of the village name is Ealda's meadow/enclosure or old meadow/enclosure.Ekwall, E. (1940) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names; 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press; p. 5 The village was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, situated in the ancient hundred of Cosford, at which time it had a population of 16 households.
In 1555, Aldham Common was the location for the martyrdom of Dr Rowland Taylor, the rector of Hadleigh, during the Marian Persecutions of Protestants. An unhewn stone, probably dating from the early 17th century, marks the place of Taylor's death, located where the B1070 Lady Lane meets the A1071 Ipswich Road. Next to the stone is a pyramidal stone monument erected in 1818 and restored by parishioners in 1882.& Historic Sites and Other Remarkable and Interesting Places in the County of Suffolk, by John Wodderspoon, 1839, pp. 47–58 It is a Grade II listed building.
The church of Aldham St Mary is one of 38 existing round-tower churches in Suffolk. It appears in the second series of the BBC Four television series Detectorists.Webb C, Where to find Mackenzie Crook's Detectorists in Suffolk, Radio Times. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
Demography According to the Office for National Statistics, at the time of the United Kingdom Census 2001, Aldham had a population of 200, reducing to 175 at the 2011 Census.
Population change Population growth in Aldham from 1801 to 1891 Year 1801 1811 1821 1831 1841 1851 1881 1891 Population 197 251 292 318 293 307 238 228Source: A Vision of Britain Through Time
Population growth in Aldham from 1901 to 2001 Year 1901 1911 1921 1931 1951 1961 2001 Population 238 207 186 186 163 126 200Source: A Vision of Britain Through Time
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St Mary, Aldham Suffolk Churches St Mary's on the European Round Tower Churches website