A descendent of the family behind the name of a road going through the middle of a new development has described the move as a 'fitting tribute'.

The 34 homes, which include eight affordable houses, on land south of Woodlands looking over Pin Mill, is to be called Spalding Way after the grandfather that bought the land, and his son Roy who later owned it.

Jane Spinks who, along with sister Sally and their brother also called Roy Spalding, inherited the land, have carried on the family tradition of building homes for the community.

Grandfather Edward Roy invested in a lot of land in and around Chelmondiston spending money he earned at Ransomes in Ipswich, where he cycled to and from work.

Jane moved to Chelmondiston from Little Yeldham when she was three and lived in Old School House and is proud of the family's connection to the peninsula.

"It all started with my our grandad Edward Roy but everyone knew him as Roy. When he married gran, who lived at Playford Hall, he was told he had to earn enough to be able to keep her in manner which she was accustomed."

With that in mind Roy moved to Argentina where he was a gaucho-style rancher with Fray Bentos, until a revolution forced him and his fault to return to the UK, penniless as all their money and assets were taken from them.

Roy got a job at Cranes and cycled to Ipswich to get to work and he eventually earned and saved enough to buy land at Woodlands, where Jane and Nigel's current home was built in Collimer Close, at the back of the Old School House.

"Even though he lost all his money in the revolution he used to cycle from Chelmondiston to Cranes every day, and he just kept buying land and doing deals."

Roy also bought Church Farm and then Red House Farm, while raising Jane's dad, another Roy, who they had when he was 41.

The family gifted land to build Chelmondiston primary school and the playing field.

Babergh built council houses on Spalding's land at Millfield but the family insisted there was a caveat that only people with village connection could move in, and even today nearly everyone who lives there now are local

Jane said: "We are hoping that's what happens when these house are built in Spaldings Way. There eight affordable allocated and should all be for locals."

The land where the new devilment is being built was passed on to the family when Jane, sally and Roy's dad died

Getting panning permission was not straightforward but Jane believes her dad Roy was still pulling strings in his own way.

She said: "I was wearing my lucky propeller at the planning meeting and I felt her dad was looking down on us and we were granted permission.

"It has not always been an easy journey in finding the right developer and fund the archaeological digs and the build but we are there now."

Jane's husband Nigel, of Chim Chimney fame, also believes in fate and in particulate with a coin that was found in a ditch as part of the archaeology dig.

Nigel said: "It was and exciting find because the ditch coins showed it was likely that people lived there.

"Bizarrley, one side of coin has the name Spink, and the other is Apollo.

"My name and that of the French bulldog we bought, that was already called Apollo."

Then there was the chance meeting with planning consultant expert Lesley Short, who won a raffle ticket for a free chimney sweep and that introduction led to him advised the Spinks family.

Friends and family invested money or time into making the whole thing happening and they are keeping it in the family by using brother Roy's estate