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Heveningham is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located four miles south-west of Halesworth, in 2005 it had a population of 120. Heveningham Hall, a country house built in 1777, once belonged to the Lords Huntingfield. History In 1870–1872, John Marius Wilson's ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' described the parish as: ”Haveningham, or Heveningham, a village and parish in Blything district, Suffolk.” Historic buildings Church of St Margaret St. Margaret's Church, built in 1539, is a Perpendicular style parish church and is now a Grade I listed building. Heveningham Hall Heveningham Hall is a Grade I listed building that stands on the site of an earlier house built for William Heveningham in 1658. Country fair The summer fair is held annually in the grounds of Heveningham Hall and is a landmark event for the Parish, as it highlights the local rural traditions. Activities include a Sheep Show, ...
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Heveningham Population Time Series 1800-2011
Heveningham is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located four miles south-west of Halesworth, in 2005 it had a population of 120. Heveningham Hall, a country house built in 1777, once belonged to the Lords Huntingfield. History In 1870–1872, John Marius Wilson's ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' described the parish as: ”Haveningham, or Heveningham, a village and parish in Blything district, Suffolk.” Historic buildings Church of St Margaret St. Margaret's Church, built in 1539, is a Perpendicular style parish church and is now a Grade I listed building. Heveningham Hall Heveningham Hall is a Grade I listed building that stands on the site of an earlier house built for William Heveningham in 1658. Country fair The summer fair is held annually in the grounds of Heveningham Hall and is a landmark event for the Parish, as it highlights the local rural traditions. Activities include a Sheep Show, C ...
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Heveningham Occ Chart1
Heveningham is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located four miles south-west of Halesworth, in 2005 it had a population of 120. Heveningham Hall, a country house built in 1777, once belonged to the Lords Huntingfield. History In 1870–1872, John Marius Wilson's ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' described the parish as: ”Haveningham, or Heveningham, a village and parish in Blything district, Suffolk.” Historic buildings Church of St Margaret St. Margaret's Church, built in 1539, is a Perpendicular style parish church and is now a Grade I listed building. Heveningham Hall Heveningham Hall is a Grade I listed building that stands on the site of an earlier house built for William Heveningham in 1658. Country fair The summer fair is held annually in the grounds of Heveningham Hall and is a landmark event for the Parish, as it highlights the local rural traditions. Activities include a Sheep Show, C ...
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Heveningham Map
Heveningham is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located four miles south-west of Halesworth, in 2005 it had a population of 120. Heveningham Hall, a country house built in 1777, once belonged to the Lords Huntingfield. History In 1870–1872, John Marius Wilson's ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' described the parish as: ”Haveningham, or Heveningham, a village and parish in Blything district, Suffolk.” Historic buildings Church of St Margaret St. Margaret's Church, built in 1539, is a Perpendicular style parish church and is now a Grade I listed building. Heveningham Hall Heveningham Hall is a Grade I listed building that stands on the site of an earlier house built for William Heveningham in 1658. Country fair The summer fair is held annually in the grounds of Heveningham Hall and is a landmark event for the Parish, as it highlights the local rural traditions. Activities include a Sheep Show, C ...
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Heveningham Age
Heveningham is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located four miles south-west of Halesworth, in 2005 it had a population of 120. Heveningham Hall, a country house built in 1777, once belonged to the Lords Huntingfield. History In 1870–1872, John Marius Wilson's ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' described the parish as: ”Haveningham, or Heveningham, a village and parish in Blything district, Suffolk.” Historic buildings Church of St Margaret St. Margaret's Church, built in 1539, is a Perpendicular style parish church and is now a Grade I listed building. Heveningham Hall Heveningham Hall is a Grade I listed building that stands on the site of an earlier house built for William Heveningham in 1658. Country fair The summer fair is held annually in the grounds of Heveningham Hall and is a landmark event for the Parish, as it highlights the local rural traditions. Activities include a Sheep Show, C ...
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Heveningham Hall On A Cold November Day (geograph 2178364)
Heveningham is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk (district), East Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located four miles south-west of Halesworth, in 2005 it had a population of 120. Heveningham Hall, a country house built in 1777, once belonged to the Baron Huntingfield, Lords Huntingfield. History In 1870–1872, John Marius Wilson's ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' described the parish as: ”Haveningham, or Heveningham, a village and parish in Blything district, Suffolk.” Historic buildings Church of St Margaret Church of St Margaret, Heveningham, St. Margaret's Church, built in 1539, is a Perpendicular style parish church and is now a Grade I listed building. Heveningham Hall Heveningham Hall is a Grade I listed building that stands on the site of an earlier house built for William Heveningham in 1658. Country fair The summer fair is held annually in the grounds of Heveningham Hall and is a landmark event for the Parish, a ...
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Heveningham Hall
Heveningham Hall is a Grade I listed building in Heveningham, Suffolk. The first house on the site was built for the politician and regicide William Heveningham in 1658. The present house, dating from 1778 to 1780, was designed by Sir Robert Taylor for Gerard Vanneck, Sir Gerald Vanneck, 2nd Baronet with interiors by James Wyatt. The hall remained in the Vanneck family until 1981. After a period of decline and uncertainty about the future of the hall in the 20th century, it was purchased in 1994 by the billionaire property entrepreneur Jon Hunt. Hunt has since spent considerable sums of money on both the house and ground including the implementation of plans by Capability Brown for of parkland and lakes that had never been realised. Various events are now held in the grounds each year, and parts of the grounds are integrated into the adjacent Wilderness Reserve, also owned by Hunt. History The first house on the site was built for William Heveningham in 1658 and it stood for ...
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William Heveningham
William Heveningham (1604–1678) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1653. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War and was one of the Regicides of Charles I of England.David PlanWilliam Heveningham, Regicide, 1604-78the British Civil Wars and Commonwealth website Political life The son of Sir John Heveningham, he was High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1633. In April 1640, he was elected Member of Parliament for Stockbridge in the Short Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Stockbridge for the Long Parliament in November 1640 and sat until 1653 in the Rump Parliament. He served on committee of Eastern Association in 1646. A member of high court he refused to sign the death-warrant of Charles I in 1649. He was a member of council of state in 1649 and was appointed Vice-Admiral of the Coast for Suffolk in 1651. (also main article xxvi 32) At the Restoration Heveningham's life was saved by the exertions of his wife's relatio ...
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Church Of St Margaret, Heveningham
The Church of St Margaret is a Church of England parish church in Heveningham, Suffolk. The church is a grade I listed building. History The churches dates to the Medieval period. The chancel dates to the 14th century. The tower dates to the 15th century. The double hammerbeam nave roof dates to the early 16th century. The church was restored from 1847 to 1966. On 7 December 1966, the church was designated a Grade I listed building. Present day St Margaret's is part of the Benefice of Heveningham with Ubbeston, Huntingfield and Cookley in the Archdeaconry of Suffolk of the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. As the parish rejects the ordination of women, it receives alternative episcopal oversight from the Bishop of Richborough (currently Norman Banks). Notable burials * The church contains an oak tomb of Sir John Haveningham. * Air Vice-Marshal Thomas Traill, senior RAF officer, is buried in the churchyard. * Mary Shelton, suspected mistress of King Henry VIII, is buri ...
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Thomas Traill
Air Vice Marshal Thomas Cathcart Traill, (6 August 1899 – 1 October 1973) was a senior Royal Air Force officer. He began his military career as a midshipman in the Royal Navy, transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 and rose to the rank of captain during the First World War, becoming a flying ace credited with eight aerial victories. He remained in the newly formed Royal Air Force after the war; by the time he retired in 1954, he had risen to the rank of air vice marshal. Early life Thomas Cathcart Traill was born on 6 August 1899 in Argentina. He attended school at the Royal Naval Colleges at Osborne and Dartmouth. First World War Traill joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman on 2 August 1914, when he was just four days shy of his 15th birthday. He was assigned to and served in the Gallipoli campaign. ''Above the Trenches'' p. 366. Traill transferred to the Royal Flying Corps to train as a pilot, and after completion of training was commissioned as a temporary sec ...
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Joshua Vanneck, 1st Baron Huntingfield
Joshua Vanneck, 1st Baron Huntingfield (31 December 1745 – 15 August 1816), known as Sir Joshua Vanneck, 3rd Baronet, from 1791 to 1796, was a British merchant and Member of Parliament. Huntingfield was the second son of the London merchant Sir Joshua Vanneck, 1st Baronet, and Mary Anne Daubuz. The family was of Dutch origin. He was educated at Eton and then became a merchant in London like his father. In 1774 Alexander Fordyce was forced to sell his splendid estate in Roehampton to Joshua Vanneck. After 1777 Grove House, Roehampton was rebuilt by James Wyatt and Robert Adam. In 1790 he succeeded his elder brother as Member of Parliament for Dunwich, a seat he held until 1816, and in 1791 he also succeeded him as third Baronet, inheriting Heveningham Hall in Suffolk. In 1796 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Huntingfield, of Heveningham Hall in the County of Suffolk. Lord Huntingfield married Maria Thompson, daughter of Andrew Thompson, in 1777. He died in Augu ...
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Baron Huntingfield
Baron Huntingfield is a title that has been created three times, twice in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of Ireland. The first two creations were by writ, but little more is known about them, except that John de Huntingfield, who was created Baron Huntingfield in 1362, married Margery (or Margaret) de Welles, daughter of John de Welles, 4th Baron Welles. John was dead by December 1376, when Margery remarried. Both titles probably became extinct or fell into abeyance on the death of their first holders. The third creation, Baron Huntingfield, of Heveningham Hall in the County of Suffolk, was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1796 for Sir Joshua Vanneck, 3rd Baronet, Member of Parliament for Dunwich. His son, the second Baron, also represented this constituency in the House of Commons. His great-grandson, the fifth Baron (who succeeded his uncle), was Conservative Member of Parliament for Eye and Governor of Victoria. the titles are held by the latter's grandson, ...
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Stratford Johns
Alan Edgar Stratford Johns (22 September 1925 – 29 January 2002), known as Stratford Johns, was a British stage, film and television actor who is best remembered for his starring role as Detective Inspector Charlie Barlow in the long-running BBC police series ''Z-Cars''. Early life Johns was born and grew up in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. After serving as a deckhand in the South African navy during World War II, he worked for a time in accountancy, but soon became involved in amateur theatre. Career In 1948, Johns bought a one-way ticket to Britain and learned his craft working in repertory theatre at Southend-on-Sea for almost five years. He began to appear in British films from the mid-1950s, including a bit part in the classic Ealing comedy '' The Ladykillers'' (1955). He ran a small hotel in London during the 1950s, and was a member of the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre during the Angry Young Men period when new playwrights, including John Osborne, ...
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