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Foxhall, Suffolk

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Foxhall is a hamlet of scattered farmhouses and cottages and a civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal district of Suffolk, England, a few miles east of Ipswich. It is adjacent to the parishes of Kesgrave to the north, Martlesham to the north east, Bucklesham to the east, Purdis Heath to the south and the borough of Ipswich to the west. The 2001 population was around 280.

It is home to the stadium of Ipswich Witches speedway team. It was recorded in Domesday as "Foxehola". All Saints Church stood north of Mill River; it was in ruins by the mid-16th century. Much of this church building survives, with the north wall preety much intact and can still be seen put to a new use as part of the barn of Foxhall Farm. It stands at the top of a slope overlooking one of the backroads that link Foxhall Road with Bucklesham Road. Two enormous buttresses give the game away, as well as an expanse of flint amongst the red-brick.In 1530, Foxhall became an ecclesiastical hamlet to Brightwell. On the heath are several springs which give rise to the Mill River a tributary of the River Deben.

According to Suffolk Campaign for Real Ale the village once had its own beer house (brewery with pub attached) called the Waddling Duck, long since demolished.