Pakefield

Coordinates: 52°27′04″N 1°43′41″E / 52.451°N 1.728°E / 52.451; 1.728

Pakefield
Pakefield  Pakefield shown within Suffolk
Shire county	Suffolk
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Lowestoft
Postcode district	NR
Dialling code	01502
Police	Suffolk
Fire	Suffolk
Ambulance	East of England
EU Parliament	East of England
List of places: UK • England • Suffolk

Pakefield was historically a village with fishing community^[1] however; it is now suburb of Lowestoft, Suffolk.

Pakefield Church All Saint's & St Margaret's

History

Pakefield is a site well known for its agrology with important finds like flint tools found in Pakefield cliffs have shown that Hominins inbetween Homo Antecessor to development of Homo Heidelbergensis were active there 700,000 years ago.^[2] More recently, in the Doomsday book Pakefield is called “Pagefalla”; this name is from the Pagan settlement that used to be on site of Pakefield church. Arbour Lane in Pakefield got its name from the harbour that was built by Danes which had Vikings raiding it.

BloodMoor Hill in Pakefield was the site of fierce and bloody battle between Christian Romano-British VS Heathen-Angles. In 1758 a Roman armed skeleton was found there. It is said on foggy nights you can hear distant, but distinct screams, cries and clash of swords — the awful sounds of an ancient conflict. Pakefield Church also has a mysterious large sacrn stone deposited here by the Ice Age.

In the modern era, Pakefield played a very important role in the Kindertransport programme nine months before the start of World War 2. Many children who had not found prearranged foster families were given temporary shelter in the local holiday camp.

Legend has it that Pakefield has a ghost — occasionally fisherman have seen a white figure walking along the cliff tops near Crazy Mary's Hole. Ghostly footsteps have also been claimed to have been heard along Florence Road at 9pm.^[3][4].

Promoting Pakefield Group

The Promoting Pakefield Group is made up of local people and places in Pakefield the idea of the group is to help Pakefield have it says on its own development a group to defend Pakefield from majour regeneration work. The main idea is to raise profile of area to make Pakefield a better place to live it was formed in 2004 it is now a developing group. So far Promoting Pakefield Group has done these things for Pakefield they had annual christmas tree, put up Pakefield logo sign along with welcome to Pakefield sign, improvements were made to war memorial, annual Pakefield fete, notice board was put up.^[5]

Pakefield has a large beach, which has been transformed over the years. At the beginning of the 20th century the beach was somewhat further east than today, and became smaller as the North Sea came in and through coastal erosion caused many residents to lose their homes. The sea has returned and "retreated" the beach over the years leaving a wide expanse mixture of stony beach near the cliffs, sandy shoreline with grass dunes and steep ancient cliffs, undeveloped save for a footpath running along its length, along with wooden fishing boats and huts now apart of history.

The Seagull Theatre

Along parts of Pakefield cliffs, is an area where tourists go and people come on holiday, you will find; Pakefield Caravan Park, Beach Farm Holiday Park, which also leads to; Pakefield Pet Hotel, Pakefield Rifle Range. On top of the cliffs is Pontins Pakefield Holiday Park. At the back of Pontins Pakefield Holiday Park is Pakefield's lighthouse; although it is no longer used as a lighthouse it still is used by Pakefield Coastwatch.

However; Local area of Pakefield is where shops are most of wich are gathered around the area of The Tramways Hotel, part of the former Tram Terminus of the Tram Service from Lowestoft. There are; Spar and Co-operative foodstores, Pakefield Cards & Crafts shop, Knight Vision Optical Optician, Pakefield Florist, Boots Health Care shop, Mr Chips, K.E. Hutson Butcher, Wavaney Stardust Charity Shop, Glendower Bakery.

There are also other places including; B&D Stores, Pakefield Church All Saints & St Margaret's, The Fishers Hotel, The Seagull Theatre, St Nichola's Pakefield RC Roman Catholic Church, Ferini Art Gallery, The Trowel & Hammer, The Ship Inn, The Jolly Sailers, The Oddfellows, Pakefield Plaice, The Carlton Pub.

Memorial

The Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), a large fisheries research centre, which is a part of Defra is still located in Pakefield. Pakefield opperates most of water supply from London Road water tower and Stradbroke Road water tower. This also helps to supply; Pakefield fire station.

At present Pakefield has two schools Pakefield Primary and Pakefield Middle. It is expected that in future that ERASE UK's plan for Pakefield Middle site is Pakefield Primary move into middle school grounds meaning the current old Edwardian Pakefield Primary would not be used thus only plans for a primary school were submitted. Pakefield Football Club; Pakefield F.C. was established in 1981.^[6].

References

External links

• The Promoting Pakefield Group
• Pakefield Church All Saint's & St Margaret's
• The Seagull Theatre
• St Nichola's Pakefield RC Church
• Cefas

Governance

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Pakefield sends two councillors to the county council and local council. Traditionally the seats have been Labour Party so had most areas, however the Conservative are now in more. The Member of Parliament is elected through the Waveney seat which is currently held by Bob Blizzard as of which Lowestoft does most of it.

Pakefield has boundaries with another suburb of Carlton Colville. Pakefield also has boundaries with district of Kirkley. However; all areas make up the town of Lowestoft.

Election results 2009