Toppesfield

Toppesfield is one of many rural areas providing their own solution to the loss of pubs and shops. Around 300 village shops are closing their doors each year and an estimated 2,500 have shut in the past decade, according to the Rural Shops Alliance.

Surfacing company Toppesfield, based at Claydon, near Ipswich, returns in 91st place, with its sales of £75.1m representing growth of 46%, having previously appeared in the listing six years ago. Troy Group, which also has an office in London and has a ...

Toppesfield, which is based at Claydon, near Ipswich, and operates across the country, successfully bid for the owls at a charity auction in aid of the Big Hoot campaign run in support of a £3.65million appeal for the Birmingham Children's Hospital ...

Pumphouse is the first community-owned brewery to open in the East of England, and the third in the country. It is also the third community-owned enterprise to open in Toppesfield. In 2001, residents saved their village shop and, in 2012, they made ...

Toppesfield has been appointed as preferred sub-contractor for a £1.4m project by Hochtief (UK) Construction Limited to carry out road surfacing works to provide access to the planned Thames Valley Science Park, which is part of the University of Reading.

It happened at Toppesfield Hall, near Halstead, at around 2pm. An ambulance spokesman said an animal at an agricultural sale collided with two people. The spokesman said an ambulance crew and the Essex Air Ambulance were sent to the scene.