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ABOUT EYKE
The village and parish of Eyke has a wonderful landscape and a real history. The plateau lying seaward to the south, towards Capel, Tangham and Hatchley is part of the ancient Sandlings, the great heath which stretched along the coastal belt of East Anglia, maintained since Neolithic times by the grazing of sheep. Where a tree has fallen or a pit has been dug, the green sward is punctuated by sudden patches of brilliant orange sands – the Red Crag – unique to this area (from the bed of a warm sea which spread across our coastlands more than a million years ago), or by the gravels dragged here by great ice-sheets long afterwards. It was only in the past century that Rendlesham Forest plantations (much of which stood in Eyke) grew into a dense and shadowy woodland architecture"
Extract by Dr Steven J Plunkett MA, PhD(Cantab) FSA , from the forward to the EYKE book, published by the Eyke Millennium Group in the year 2000.
Eyke is first mentioned in the reign of Henry the 2nd, when the king held Staverton Manor from 1171-1185, although it is likely that the route to the Sutton Hoo burial site from the Royal Palace at Rendlesham passed through the lower part of the village. MORE >>
Information kindly supplied by Jackie Pooley
