Qualla: Saxmundham https://qualla.com/saxmundham en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:40:44 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/3/1/saxmundham-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Saxmundham https://qualla.com/saxmundham Saxmundham: Introduction https://qualla.com/saxmundham/ Photo credit Velvet, CC BY-SA 3.0. Ray Allen, the NBA All-Star who would later sink the most important three-pointer in Game 6 of the 2013 Finals, spent some of his childhood years in Saxmundham. His father was stationed at a US Air Force base nearby, and the family lived in this quiet Suffolk market town in the valley of the River Fromus. It is a small detail in a basketball career that ended in the Hall of Fame and a small detail in the long history of a town first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086. Saxmundham collects small details like that.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/3/1/saxmundham-wp/u131-saxmundham-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Saxmundham: Seaxmund's Village https://qualla.com/saxmundham/ Photo credit Oxyman, CC BY 2.5. The name is first recorded in the Domesday Book as Sasmunde(s)ham and appears as Saxmundham in the Feet of Fines of 1213. The meaning is straightforward Old English: Seaxmund's village or estate. The Parish Church of St John the Baptist dates back to the eleventh century, though ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/3/1/saxmundham-wp/u131-saxmundham-seaxmunds-village.mp3 0:06 2 full Saxmundham: A Cast of Quiet Lives https://qualla.com/saxmundham/ Photo credit Adrian S Pye, CC BY-SA 2.0. Saxmundham produces an unusual range of notable residents for a town its size. John Shipp, born here in 1784, was an army officer whose military memoirs were widely read across the nineteenth century. Henry Bright, born 1810, became a painter of the Norwich School. The sculptor T...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/3/1/saxmundham-wp/u131-saxmundham-a-cast-of-quiet-lives.mp3 0:06 3 full Saxmundham: Brother Eadulf and the Synod https://qualla.com/saxmundham/ Photo credit Adrian Cable, CC BY-SA 2.0. Saxmundham's most internationally famous resident is fictional. Brother Eadulf, the Saxon monk who serves as companion and assistant to Sister Fidelma in Peter Tremayne's best-selling mystery series, is introduced in 1994's Absolution by Murder as originally the hereditary gerefa...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/3/1/saxmundham-wp/u131-saxmundham-brother-eadulf-and-the-synod.mp3 0:06 4 full Saxmundham: On the East Suffolk Line https://qualla.com/saxmundham/ Photo credit Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 3.0. The A12 between London and Lowestoft bypasses Saxmundham to the east, and the East Suffolk Line between Ipswich and Lowestoft stops at Saxmundham railway station, where Greater Anglia trains pass through every couple of hours. The town became part of Plomesgate Rural District in ...

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