Westhorpe | |
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Westhorpe shown within Suffolk | |
Population | 208 (2011) |
OS grid reference | TM045691 |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Stowmarket |
Postcode district | IP14 |
EU Parliament | East of England |
Westhorpe is a linear village and civil parish in the Suffolk countryside, thirteen miles (21 km) from Bury St. Edmunds, eight miles from Stowmarket and a mile (3 km) from the villages of Wyverstone and Finningham.
Administratively Westhorpe forms part of the non-metropolitan district of Mid Suffolk.
Westhorpe Hall was a former seat of the Dukes of Suffolk and the place of death of Mary Tudor, Queen of France, with its close neighbour East Thorpe manor, being the seat of a previous duke, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk.