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History of Lawshall village, in Suffolk.
Lawshall is mentioned in Domesday Book - 1086 - with 31 households.
Lawshall Hall has been the site of a manorial hall since the 11th century.
Queen Elizabeth I rode from Long Melford to Bury St Edmunds on August 5, 1578, and dined at Lawshall Hall during her royal progress.
Coldham Hall became known as a Catholic stronghold.
All Saints Anglican Church dates from 1440.
St Edmund's Catholic Church dates from the early 18th and 16th centuries.
Lawshall Evangelical Church opened in 1970.
Drake’s Well on Lawshall Green were built or enhanced in the 19th century—the well was erected after Charles Frederick Tyrwhitt Drake died in Jerusalem in 1878.
The village underwent modernization when tractors replaced horses and electricity arrived.
