Last term, as the editor of The Mallacoota Mouth, I had occasion to talk with Wallace Gaunt (Scroll down to find the reference to Wallace). Wallace had submitted further episodes of his WWII memoirs as a member of the all volunteer Path Finder Force. Wallace flew with 627 Squadron in De Havilland Mosquitos, part of the elite Bomber Command 5 Group.

Duing the course of that conversation we discovered that we shared the same corner of Suffolk.

For a period after the war Wallace farmed the area around the lower right dot and between 1958 and 1962 we lived in a farm house where the upper left dot is. The blue outline that appears when you roll over the map is that of the bottom lake. The scales are far from perfect but they do give you an idea of how densely populated the Suffolk country side, as it has been since the middle ages. Most of these villages boast a parish church that goes back to at least the 14th or 15th century. Click on the map and you will be given a larger map which shows Bury Saint Edmunds, the nearest large town.