Gestingthorpe

James Nott, owner and manager of Gestingthorpe-based JR and EH Nott, took his BASIS Certificate in Crop Protection. He finished his exams as one of the highest achieving candidates in 2015 and earned the BASIS Farmer of the Year Award, sponsored by ...

Watercolour paintings by Belchamp artist Eleanor Mann are on show at The Pheasant in Gestingthorpe until November 30. Her exhibition Changing Seasons features native birds, wild animals and landscapes. Eleanor also runs painting classes - contact via ...

The Pheasant at Gestingthorpe, which lies between Halstead and Sudbury amid rolling Suffolk countryside was one of 24 winners celebrated at the AA Hospitality Awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. Since 2006, owners James and Diana ...

Ashley Cooper was presented with the Farming & Wildlife Advisory Group (FWAG) Silver Lapwing award by the Duke of Westminster at a ceremony held on the Raveningham Estate near Beccles. Mr Cooper, of HP Coopers Farms, of Hill Farm, Gestingthorpe, ...

In the village of Gestingthorpe, on the Essex-Suffolk borders near Sudbury, the local history group has overseen the construction of a brick kiln based on designs dating back 1,000 years. The curved structure was completed by brick-laying brothers ...

In 1945, Mr Cooper moved to Hill Farm, Gestingthorpe, near Sudbury, where he farmed cereal crops and was to be a parish councillor for fifty years. One day, following some deep ploughing on one of his fields, he was intrigued to discover fragments of ...