Stambourne

[1] Stambourne's closest neighbouring villages are Ridgewell, Toppesfield, Cornish Hall End and Great Yeldham.

[citation needed] A part of the British 17th-century witchcraft trials, the spinster Sarah Houghton of Stambourne, in 1663, was charged by the authorities with causing John Smyth to become "consumed and made infirme."

A jury, including John Levett and Matthew Butcher, found Houghton guilty, and she was ordered to be hanged.

[2] Dame Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, a stage actress of the early- and mid-20th century, lived in Stambourne in later life, dying in 1992 at the age of 101.

The event attracts people from surrounding areas (including Great Yeldham, Hedingham and Halstead).