{{Short description|Village in Suffolk, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Use British English|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox UK place |country = England |official_name = Creeting St Mary |coordinates = {{coord|52.169|1.067|display=inline,title}} |civil_parish = Creeting St Mary |population = 697 |population_ref = (2011)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11122436&c=IP6+8NF&d=16&e=62&g=6466538&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1471616456125&enc=1 |title=Civil Parish population 2011 |accessdate=19 August 2016 |publisher=Office for National Statistics |work=Neighbourhood Statistics }}{{Dead link|date=May 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> |shire_district = Mid Suffolk |shire_county = Suffolk |region = East of England |constituency_westminster = |post_town = IPSWICH |postcode_district = IP6 |postcode_area = IP |dial_code = 01449 |os_grid_reference = |static_image = St Mary Creeting St Mary - geograph.org.uk - 1445103.jpg |static_image_width = 240px |static_image_caption= The Church of St Mary, Creeting St Mary }}
'''Creeting St Mary''' is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Sandwiched between the A14 and A140 to the north of Needham Market, the parish also includes the hamlet of Creeting Bottoms. In 2005 the parish population was 710,<ref>[http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/38314C3E-02A0-4515-92FE-8909C6FDB3A3/0/Parishestimates01to05.pdf Estimates of Total Population of Areas in Suffolk] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081219023551/http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/38314C3E-02A0-4515-92FE-8909C6FDB3A3/0/Parishestimates01to05.pdf |date=19 December 2008}} Suffolk County Council</ref> which decreased to 697 at the 2011 Census.
==History== Formerly three parishes, Creeting All Saints and {{ill|Creeting St Olave|qid=Q77437607|short=yes}} were consolidated into Creeting St Mary on 25 March 1884. The consolidated parish had 3,115 residents and in 1901 had 636.<ref name="ESI (1909)">{{cite book |last1=Barker |first1=Horace R. |title=East Suffolk Illustrated |date=1909 |publisher=Frederick George Pawsey |location=Bury St Edmunds}}</ref>{{rp|126}}
==Heritage== The buck of a windmill survives in the village. It was used as a dovecote after ceasing to be a windmill.
St Mary's Church has been listed grade II* by English Heritage.<ref>{{NHLE |num=1033245 |desc= |accessdate=28 February 2015}}</ref> The parish was originally in the Hundred of Bosmere and Claydon.<ref>[https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Creeting_St_Mary_with_Creeting_All_Saints_and_St_Olave,_Suffolk_Genealogy Retrieved 26 November 2016.]</ref>
==Notable people== *John Austin (1790–1859), legal thinker responsible for the theory of legal positivism, was born here, the eldest son of the miller.<ref>{{cite EB9 |wstitle= John Austin |volume= III |page=102 |short=1}}</ref> *Michael Peck (born 1967), a first-class cricketer, was born here.
==Amenities== The village has a voluntarily aided Church of England primary school with 80–90 pupils. The Victorian building of the school, still in use for some classes, dates from 1871.
The village also has a charitable pre-school based in the Diamond Jubilee Hall.<ref>Creeting Community Pre-School [http://www.creetingpreschool.org.uk/ Retrieved 26 November 2016.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161127044216/http://www.creetingpreschool.org.uk/ |date=27 November 2016 }}</ref> There are public playground facilities in Blacksmiths Field.<ref>Blacksmiths Field [http://www.creeting-st-mary.suffolk.gov.uk/blacksmiths-field/ Retrieved 26 November 2016.]</ref>
Creeting St Mary has a pub/restaurant, ''The Highwayman'', and several other catering, retail and service outlets.<ref>Business [http://www.creeting-st-mary.suffolk.gov.uk/businesses/ Retrieved 26 November 2016.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161127030242/http://www.creeting-st-mary.suffolk.gov.uk/businesses/ |date=27 November 2016 }}</ref> Semi-soft Suffolk Gold cheese has been made here since 2004 by a family firm.{{fact|date=March 2025}}
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==External links== {{Commons category-inline|Creeting St Mary}} *[http://www.creeting-st-mary.suffolk.gov.uk/ Village website]
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Category:Creeting St Mary Category:Villages in Suffolk Category:Civil parishes in Suffolk Category:Mid Suffolk Category:Bosmere and Claydon Hundred
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