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Tannington

Coordinates: 52°15′36″N 1°17′11″E / 52.259962°N 1.28626°E / 52.259962; 1.28626
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Tannington
Church of St Ethelbert
Tannington is located in Suffolk
Tannington
Tannington
Location within Suffolk
Population110 [1]
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townWoodbridge
Postcode districtIP13
PoliceSuffolk
FireSuffolk
AmbulanceEast of England
List of places
UK
England
Suffolk
52°15′36″N 1°17′11″E / 52.259962°N 1.28626°E / 52.259962; 1.28626

Tannington is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around ten miles south-east of Diss, in 2005 its population was 110.[1] At the 2011 Census the population had fallen below 100, and not therefore being maintained on this site was included in the civil parish of Brundish.

History

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An Enclosure Award within Tannington dating from 1858.

World War II bomber incident

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Late in the afternoon of 10 October 1943, an American B-17 Flying Fortress, serial number 42-3506 nicknamed Sir Baboon McGoon, ran out of fuel and made a belly landing in a soft and muddy sugar beet field in the village of Tannington.[2] Efforts of a mobile recovery crew to repair the aircraft, and the aircraft's return to service, were documented in Popular Science magazine.[3] The aircraft was lost for good when it ditched into the North Sea on 29 March 1944, while returning from a bombardment mission over Brunswick, Germany. The Popular Science article about the belly landing in Tannington appeared two months later, in the June 1944 issue.

References

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  1. ^ a b Estimates of Total Population of Areas in Suffolk Archived 2008-12-19 at the Wayback Machine Suffolk County Council
  2. ^ Recollections of Ken McTigue a WW-II child evacuee in England who witnessed and described the October crash and recovery efforts.
  3. ^ Popular Science magazine, archive viewer, June 1944 issue, retrieved 8 June 2012 from this link.
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