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Last updated: February 27th 2010

A pleasant village with a weather-boarded watermill, recorded in Domesday as "Scotesham". Two burial mounds can be seen from the bridleway leading to Bussock wood. Shottisham creek runs down to the river Deben, but is prevented from entering it by the sea wall.

A Starfish type bombing decoy, designated as Shottisham, was built in early 1941 in the north-east of Ramsholt (at TM 313 427) to deflect enemy bombing from Ipswich. Later that year, a QL decoy was added to protect the Ransome, Sims and Jeffries factory. See Pastscape for more details.

The Woodhall Hotel, often listed as being in Shottisham, is actually in Sutton.


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estimated population (2007) of Shottisham: 180

Local licensing authority for Shottisham is Suffolk Coastal

Acknowledgements

Some historical information from English Heritage's National Monuments Record.

All information is presented here in good faith and believed to be correct at the time of writing.
The addresses of old pubs (numbers and sometimes even street names) may not always coincide with the building's current address (if it's still standing), as street names sometimes change, as do numbering schemes

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