Akenham was a small Suffolk village a hundred and fifty years ago, then lying in deep countryside on the north-west side of Ipswich. Now you can barely call it a hamlet. Most of the village has vanished: there's a few cottages; there's a farm; and next to the farm is a church, rather hidden by trees. In 1878 that church was the scene of one of the country's greatest modern religious scandals. It
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