Nayland Cemetery in Nayland, Suffolk

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Coordinates: 51.97350, 0.86774
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Nayland is a village in the Stour Valley on the Suffolk side of the border between Suffolk and Essex. The name Nayland means an island, and the village developed on the higher ground amidst the lower river flood plain. It provided a good place for both a safe crossing of the river and an early manorial centre, probably a wooden castle. These advantages brought a market by 1227 and, by the late Middle Ages, it was a successful small town. The village and the surrounding area, like much of East Anglia, was a hotbed of Puritan sentiment during much of the 17th century. At least as early as 1629, parishioners such as Gregory Stone were censured for not kneeling at communion. By the mid-1630s, the Stone family and others had departed for the Massachusetts Bay Colony as part of the wave of emigration that occurred during the Great Migration. The village church of St. James contains a famous painting, Christ Blessing the Bread and Wine, by John Constable.