Welcome to Playford
Playford Neighbourhood Plan
The Playford Draft Neighbourhood Plan can be seen here,
and commented upon.
Playford information
Map
of the Playford area
 Playford
lies in the picturesque Fynn Valley about midway between Ipswich to the
South West and Woodbridge to the North East. The village is home to around
200 people, who share the tranquillity of the surrounding green valley,
water meadows and ancient woodlands.
St Mary's Church stands sentinel on a small rise to the north east of
the village, and in the churchyard there is a memorial to Thomas Clarkson,
who once lived in the village and was the driving force behind the eventual
successful campaign to outlaw slavery. Here too, is the grave of George
Biddle Airy, 7th Astronomer Royal.
Playford’s Village Hall stands in the centre of the village and
is used extensively for regular activities such as art classes and parent
and toddler groups, and it is hired out for parties, wedding receptions
and other events. Full details of the facilities and availability are
available on the village
hall website. In the village playing field there is a well equipped
children’s play area, built using money raised by the villagers,
a football pitch, which host regular matches involving children from the
village. The playing field also has a competition sized boules piste,
built with the proceeds of local fundraising which is regularly used by
the villagers and plays home to the local boules team.
Visitors to Playford comment upon its rural charm; although the centre
of Ipswich or Woodbridge are only fifteen minutes away, Playford has the
feel of a village that is further off the beaten track. The rural beauty
is enjoyed by people walking along the valley, following the sign-posted
Fynn Valley walks that link Playford with her close neighbouring villages,
the Bealings, Culpho and Tuddenham.
Please click on "Links" on the left
of the screen to access local websites in and around Playford.
Playford completed a joint Parish Plan with Great Bealings and Little
Bealings in 2009. You can read this online.
Email list
We have a list of email addresses covering Playford and Bealings. If
you are not on the list and would like to be added, or have a news items
of local interest that you would like to publicise, please email:
(sorry that this is not a link, but this is a way of trying to avoid
spam).
If you do subscribe to the list, you will only receive mail from the
administrator - Phil Holmes. Nothing is sent automatically without human
checking. We also aim to send to you using the "BCC" (Blind
Carbon Copy) field, so your email address is not publicised further.
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