Westerfield

For other uses, see Westerfield (disambiguation).

Westerfield is a village in Suffolk, England.^[1] It lies about two miles north of the centre of Ipswich in the East Suffolk District, and is served by Westerfield railway station on the Ipswich–Lowestoft East Suffolk Line.

Westerfield
Westerfield, Church of St Mary Magdalene
Westerfield Location within Suffolk
Area	3.07 km2 (1.19 sq mi)
Population	442 (2011)
• Density	144/km2 (370/sq mi)
OS grid reference	TM1747
District	East Suffolk
Shire county	Suffolk
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	IPSWICH
Postcode district	IP6
Dialling code	01473
Police	Suffolk
Fire	Suffolk
Ambulance	East of England
UK Parliament	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
List of places UK England Suffolk 52.083°N 1.172°E / 52.083; 1.172

Amenities

Westerfield has two public houses, The Swan in northern Westerfield^[2] and The Westerfield Railway in the south.^[3] Both serve meals and contribute much to local social activity.

Central Westerfield has a village green adjacent to the medieval parish Church of St Mary Magdalene,^[4][5] where the East Anglian cleric and Hebrew scholar Cyprian Thomas Rust (1808–1895) is among those buried.^[6] It has fine stained glass windows, of which St Mary of Magdala was designed by William Morris.^[4]

Population

The population of Westerfield with Culpho was estimated at 486 in 2019^[7] and measured at 442 in the 2011 Census.^[8]