# Pettaugh

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{{Short description|Village in Suffolk, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2025}}
{{More footnotes|date=April 2014}}
{{Infobox UK place 
| official_name=         Pettaugh
| country=               England
| region=                East of England
| os_grid_reference=          
| coordinates = {{coord|52.191|1.167|display=inline,title}}
| population=            207
| population_ref=        (2011)<ref>{{cite web |url= http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11127540&c=Pettaugh&d=16&e=62&g=6466403&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=1&s=1472228812039&enc=1 |title= Civil Parish population 2011 |accessdate= 26 August 2016 |agency= Office for National Statistics |work= Neighbourhood Statistics}}</ref> 
| post_town=             [Stowmarket](/source/Stowmarket)                        
| postcode_area=         IP
| postcode_district=     IP14
| dial_code=             01473
| shire_county=          [Suffolk](/source/Suffolk)
| shire_district=        [Mid Suffolk](/source/Mid_Suffolk)
| constituency_westminster= [Central Suffolk and North Ipswich](/source/Central_Suffolk_and_North_Ipswich_(UK_Parliament_constituency))
| hide_services=         Yes
|static_image = St Catherine, Pettaugh - geograph.org.uk - 1346693.jpg
|static_image_width = 240px
|static_image_caption= St Catherine's Church, Pettaugh
}}

'''Pettaugh''' is a village and civil parish located within the district council area of [Mid Suffolk](/source/Mid_Suffolk), [England](/source/England).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.any-village.co.uk/main.asp?SiteID=AVUK&SpecID=Pettaugh |title=Pettaugh, Suffolk Community Guide |accessdate=11 April 2008}}</ref>

It is a small village of a little over 200 inhabitants in 85 households, 10 miles north of [Ipswich](/source/Ipswich) and {{frac|2|1|2}} miles south of [Debenham](/source/Debenham), in the county of Suffolk.  It is in a rural location surrounded by farmland, at the junction of the A1120 (Stowmarket to Yoxford) and the Coddenham to Debenham roads.

An aerial view of Pettaugh shows a few houses surrounded on all sides by a patchwork of farm fields. Years ago the fields may have been smaller, with lots more hedges, but farm fields surrounding the village is probably the way it's been for a very long time.
The [village sign](/source/village_sign) reflects this – it features a farmer with his horse-drawn plough, working the  farmland around Pettaugh, an anvil, indicating the existence of a blacksmith in the village, essential to farming in the days of horse-drawn ploughs, and the windmill which stood at the centre of the village. Thus are the main occupations of Pettaugh residents of 'yesteryear' represented – farming, smithing and milling the grain, mostly working very close to home. Today, residents of Pettaugh commute to nearby towns to work – to Debenham, Ipswich, [Bury St Edmunds](/source/Bury_St_Edmunds), and even by train to London;  very few earn a living in or near to the village.  Even the children catch buses or are driven by parents to schools in [Stonham Aspal](/source/Stonham_Aspal), [Debenham](/source/Debenham), [Helmingham](/source/Helmingham), etc.  Occupations may have changed but Pettaugh thrives,{{citation needed|date=December 2022}} at the heart of beautiful Suffolk countryside.

'''<u>History</u>'''

The place-name 'Pettaugh' is first attested in the [Domesday Book](/source/Domesday_Book) of 1086, where it appears as ''Petehaga'' and ''Pettehaga''. The name means 'Peota's enclosure'.<ref>[Eilert Ekwall](/source/Eilert_Ekwall), ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names'', p.364. </ref>

The medieval parish church of St Catherine was renovated in 1861 and is a grade II* listed building.<ref>{{NHLE|num=1182764|desc=CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE|accessdate=14 April 2014}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Pettaugh}}
*[http://www.any-village.co.uk/main.asp?SiteID=AVUK&SpecID=Pettaugh Information on Pettaugh]
*[http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/pettaugh.htm St Catherine Church], located in Pettaugh.

{{Suffolk}}

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Category:Villages in Suffolk
Category:Mid Suffolk
Category:Civil parishes in Suffolk

{{Suffolk-geo-stub}}

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