Tannington | |
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![]() Church of St Ethelbert | |
Location within Suffolk | |
Population | 110 [1] |
District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Woodbridge |
Postcode district | IP13 |
Police | Suffolk |
Fire | Suffolk |
Ambulance | East of England |
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
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/1858_Order_of_Exchange_of_Lands_-_Brundish%2C_Suffolk._Lord_Henniker_and_Trustees_of_the_Parish_Lands_of_Tannington_%28Map%29.jpg/220px-1858_Order_of_Exchange_of_Lands_-_Brundish%2C_Suffolk._Lord_Henniker_and_Trustees_of_the_Parish_Lands_of_Tannington_%28Map%29.jpg)
World War II bomber incident
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
- ^ a b Estimates of Total Population of Areas in Suffolk Archived 2008-12-19 at the Wayback Machine Suffolk County Council
- ^ Recollections of Ken McTigue a WW-II child evacuee in England who witnessed and described the October crash and recovery efforts.
- ^ Popular Science magazine, archive viewer, June 1944 issue, retrieved 8 June 2012 from this link.
External links
Media related to Tannington at Wikimedia Commons