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Welcome to the website for Nettlestead Parish Meeting, Suffolk. 

As a very small community, Nettlestead does not have a Parish Council. Instead, we have a Parish Meeting which has fewer powers than a Parish Council. Parish Meetings do not have councillors, instead a Chair is elected at each meeting. All residents of the parish of Nettlestead can come to meetings  and put their views forward on matters relating to the parish. 

The next Meeting of the Parish of Nettlestead will be held on Tuesday 4th November 2025 at 7.30pm in St. Mary's  Parish Church.

All parishioners are welcome to attend. For further details, please contact Janet Gobey (details below).

Email: chairmannettlesteadparishmeeting@yahoo.com. 

Contact: Janet Gobey - Clerk and Responsible Financial Officer.

Tel: 07598 282579

Email: nettlesteadparishmeeting@gmail.com 

If you are  looking for information on Nettlestead, near Maidstone in Kent or want to contact the Parish Council there, you  have come to the wrong place! Please go to www.nettlesteadparishcouncil.co.uk

Nettlestead is a dispersed village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England.The surrounding villages of Nettlestead include Somersham (the closest), Little Blakenham, Baylham, Barking, Willisham and Offton.

In Nettlestead there are two manors: The Chace and High Hall.

The originally the manor belonged to the Earls of Richmond; passed to Peter II, Count of Savoy, Robert de Tiptoft, the Despencers and the Wentworths; and gave to the last the title of Baron. Nettlestead Hall (the Chace) was the Manor-house which retains an ancient gateway, bearing the arms of the Wentworths. From the 13th to the 16th centuries the Nettlestead families were patrons of the house of friars minor at Ipswich.

High Hall dates back to the 16th Century and was built by Huguenots who had fled from France during series of religious persecutions.

Located to the north-west of Ipswich and 11 miles from Stowmarket, in 2005 its population was 90.