Hemingstone

Hemingstone

Church of St Gregory
Hemingstone
Hemingstone shown within Suffolk
Population 244 (2011 Census)[1]
OS grid reference TM150530
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Ipswich
Postcode district IP6
EU Parliament East of England

Hemingstone is a village and parish in Suffolk, England 6.5 miles (11 km) north of Ipswich.

Hemingstone lies in the hundred of Bosmere. It is a small parish devoted largely to fruit farming with no significant amenities other than the village hall known as "Hemingstone Hut". The residents shop at the adjacent village of Coddenham if they do not choose to go further afield. The largest employer in the village is Stonham Hedgerow, a family business manufacturing jams and preserves.

History

According to the 13th century Liber Feodorum (Book of Fees), the fee tail granted to Roland the Farter for the manor was conditioned on the performance of "unum saltum et siffletum et unum bumbulum" (one jump, one whistle, and one fart) at the king's court every Christmas.

In 1597 the entire parish was cited before a church court for laxity. This may have been the influence of the incumbent manorial lord, Ralph Cantrell, a recusant Catholic.

Hemingstone Hall is a brick-built Jacobean country house built in the early 17th century. It is a Grade I listed building.[2]

The Suffolk folk singer Percy Webb was born in Hemingstone in 1897.

Parish church

The parish church is dedicated to St. Gregory and is Grade I listed.[3] It lies away from the village, just south of Coddenham on the B1078 road between Needham Market and Wickham Market.

References

  1. ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  2. ↑ Historic England. "HEMINGSTONE HALL AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS ON THE SOUTH WEST SIDE (1182536)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  3. ↑ Historic England. "CHURCH OF ST GREGORY (1182641)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  • National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland, (London: Virtue, 1868)
  • Mortlock, Derek P. The Popular Guide to Suffolk Churches 1 - West Suffolk (Acorn, 1988) ISBN 0-906554-10-1

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