Laxfield

Laxfield is believed to date from Saxon times as it is known that an early church was there, and the village itself appears in the Domesday Book of 1086. In 1226 Laxfield was given a charter to hold a market and Saturday was selected. All Saints’ Church in Laxfield is largely of 14th-century construction, and was essentially complete by 1488. The village and the surrounding area, like much of East Anglia, was a hotbed of Puritan sentiment during much of the 17th century. Being the birthplace of the iconoclast William Dowsing as well as the home of many of his kin, it was natural enough that Laxfield became a puritan parish. By the mid-1630s, the Fiske family and others had departed for the…