Akenham church is part of a small hamlet three miles north of Ipswich. The church is abandoned but under the care of the church conservation trust. It is isolated apart from a farm which backs onto its graveyard. The road to the church is a quarter of a mile away from the nearest thoroughfare.
Akenham Church has many rumors of strange happenings. It has been reported that the bells ring for no reason, and a ghost has appeared at its window. It is most known for a legend which has been passed down from generation to generation which says that the devil slumbers under a split gravestone and you risk his ire by running around the church thirteen times anticlockwise.
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