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{{Infobox UK place
|country = England
|official_name=Gedding
|coordinates = {{coord|52.18483|0.85410|display=inline,title}}
| population = 125
| population_ref = (2011)<ref>{{NOMIS2011|last=|first=|date=|title=Gedding Parish|id=E04009202|accessdate=20 August 2020}}</ref>
|shire_district= [[Mid Suffolk]]
|shire_county = [[Suffolk]]
|region= East of England
|constituency_westminster= [[Bury St Edmunds (UK Parliament constituency)|Bury St Edmunds]]
|post_town=  [[Bury St Edmunds]]
|postcode_district =  IP30
|postcode_area=       IP
|dial_code=
|area_total_km2 = 2.00
|population_density =
|os_grid_reference= TL950580
|static_image = Gedding Hall, Gedding, Suffolk - geograph.org.uk - 220522.jpg
|static_image_width = 240px
|static_image_caption= Gedding Hall
|pushpin_map = England
}}
'''Gedding''' is a village and [[civil parish]] in the [[Mid Suffolk]] district of [[Suffolk]] in eastern [[England]]. Located around six miles south east of [[Bury St Edmunds]]. At the [[2011 United Kingdom census|2011 census]] its population was 125, rising to 134 at the 2018 [[Office for National Statistics (United Kingdom)|ONS]] mid year estimate.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Gedding (Parish, United Kingdom) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location|url=https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/eastofengland/admin/mid_suffolk/E04009202__gedding/|access-date=2020-06-03|website=www.citypopulation.de}}</ref>
==History==
The village's name derives from the [[old english]] phrase meaning ''Gydda's People''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Key to English Place-names|url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Suffolk/Gedding|access-date=2020-06-03|website=kepn.nottingham.ac.uk}}</ref>
In 1086 it is recorded in the [[Domesday Book]] as ''Geldinga'' with 18 households made up of 15 freemen and 3 smallholders along with 5 acres of meadow. The land was held by [[Bury Abbey]] and [[William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Gedding {{!}} Domesday Book|url=https://opendomesday.org/place/TL9558/gedding/|access-date=2020-06-03|website=opendomesday.org}}</ref>
There were two [[List of windmills in Suffolk#G|windmills]] in the parish, both were [[Post mill]]s with one existing from 1783 to c. 1904. The other post mill came from [[Felsham]] in 1867 having been originally constructed in 1824, it was demolished in 1944, on the journey from Felsham it was pulled by 26 horses and got stuck at a [[Ford (crossing)|ford]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Flint, Brian.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6422007|title=Suffolk windmills|date=1979|publisher=Boydell Press|isbn=0-85115-112-4|location=Woodbridge [England]|oclc=6422007}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Gedding - Archive Catalogue|url=https://catalogue.millsarchive.org/gedding-2|access-date=2020-06-03|website=catalogue.millsarchive.org}}</ref>
There are six [[listed building]]s in Gedding, four are grade II with the early C.16th Gedding Hall being grade II* listed and the grade I church of St Mary.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Listed Buildings in Gedding, Mid Suffolk, Suffolk|url=https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/england/gedding-mid-suffolk-suffolk#.XtfPa_lKipo|access-date=2020-06-03|website=britishlistedbuildings.co.uk}}</ref>
==Bradfield Woods==
[[Bradfield Woods]] [[national nature reserve (United Kingdom)|National Nature Reserve]] and [[Site of Special Scientific Interest]] is located just to the west of the village.<ref name=nnr>[http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/ourwork/conservation/designations/nnr/1006020.aspx Bradfield Woods NNR] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130815011856/http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/ourwork/conservation/designations/nnr/1006020.aspx |date=2013-08-15 }}, Natural England. Retrieved 2013-05-29.</ref>
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==External links==
{{Commons category-inline|Gedding}}
*[http://geddingandfelsham.blogspot.co.uk/ Gedding & Felsham community magazine]
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[[Category:Villages in Suffolk]]
[[Category:Civil parishes in Suffolk]]
[[Category:Mid Suffolk District]]
[[Category:Thedwastre Hundred]]
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