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Horringer
Horringer is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. It lies on the A143 about two miles south-west of Bury St Edmunds. The population in 2011 was 1055. Heritage Horringer was earlier known as Horningsheath. The school kept this spelling until after the Second World War. The village includes the main entrance to Ickworth house, a Neoclassical country house which was the seat of the Earls and Marquesses of Bristol until the 7th Marquess sold the lease to the National Trust. Notable residents In birth order: * Thomas Rogers (c. 1553–1616), a religious controversialist and cleric was the Rector of St Leonards, Horringer, from 1581 until his death. *John Covel (1638-1722), clergyman and scientist who became Master of Christ's College, Cambridge and vice-chancellor of the University *Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, born Elizabeth Christiana Hervey in Horringer on 13 May 1759, became a notable society hostess and patron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horringer
Horringer is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. It lies on the A143 about two miles south-west of Bury St Edmunds. The population in 2011 was 1055. Heritage Horringer was earlier known as Horningsheath. The school kept this spelling until after the Second World War. The village includes the main entrance to Ickworth house, a Neoclassical country house which was the seat of the Earls and Marquesses of Bristol until the 7th Marquess sold the lease to the National Trust. Notable residents In birth order: * Thomas Rogers (c. 1553–1616), a religious controversialist and cleric was the Rector of St Leonards, Horringer, from 1581 until his death. *John Covel (1638-1722), clergyman and scientist who became Master of Christ's College, Cambridge and vice-chancellor of the University *Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, born Elizabeth Christiana Hervey in Horringer on 13 May 1759, became a notable society hostess and patron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bury St Edmunds
Bury St Edmunds (), commonly referred to locally as Bury, is a historic market town, market, cathedral town and civil parish in Suffolk, England.OS Explorer map 211: Bury St.Edmunds and Stowmarket Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – Southampton A2 edition. Publishing Date:2008. Bury St Edmunds Abbey is near the town centre. Bury is the seat of the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich of the Church of England, with the episcopal see at St Edmundsbury Cathedral. The town, originally called Beodericsworth, was built on a grid pattern by Abbot Baldwin around 1080. It is known for brewing and malting (Greene King brewery) and for a British Sugar processing factory, where Silver Spoon sugar is produced. The town is the cultural and retail centre for West Suffolk and tourism is a major part of the economy. Etymology The name ''Bury'' is etymologically connected with ''borough'', which has cognates in other Germanic languages such as the German meaning "fortress, castle"; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess Of Devonshire
Elizabeth Christiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (13 May 1758 – 30 March 1824) was an English aristocrat and letter writer. She is best known as Lady Elizabeth Foster, the close friend of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. Elizabeth supplanted the Duchess, gaining the affections of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire and later marrying him. Several of her letters are preserved. Life Known as Bess, she was born Elizabeth Christiana Hervey on 13 May 1758, in a small house in Horringer, St Edmundsbury, Suffolk. Her father, Frederick Hervey, Bishop of Derry, later became the fourth Earl of Bristol. She had three brothers, including John, Lord Hervey and Frederick, 1st Marquess of Bristol; and two sisters, Lady Mary Erne and Louisa, Countess of Liverpool. In 1776, Elizabeth married Irishman John Thomas Foster (1747–1796). He was a first cousin of the brothers John Foster, last Speaker of the (united) Irish House of Commons, and Bishop (William) Foste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Suffolk (district)
West Suffolk District is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Suffolk, England, which was established on 1 April 2019, following the merger of the existing Forest Heath district with the borough of Borough of St Edmundsbury, St Edmundsbury. The two councils had already had a joint Chief Executive since 2011. At the 2011 census, the two districts had a combined population of 170,756. It is currently controlled by the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party. The main towns in the new district are Bury St Edmunds, Newmarket, Suffolk, Newmarket, Brandon, Suffolk, Brandon, Haverhill, Suffolk, Haverhill and Mildenhall, Suffolk, Mildenhall. The district covers a smaller area compared to the former administrative county of West Suffolk (county), West Suffolk, which was abolished by the Local Government Act 1972. Communities The district council area is made up of 5 towns and 97 civil parishes, with the whole area being parished. Towns *Brandon, Suffolk, Brando ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Rogers (clergyman)
Thomas Rogers (died 1616) was an English Anglican clergyman, known as a theologian, controversialist and translator. Life He was a student of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1571, and graduated B.A. 7 July 1573, and M.A. 6 July 1576. He was subsequently (11 December 1581) rector of Horringer in Suffolk. Initially he was on good terms with local Puritan figures such as John Knewstub and Walter Allen; but his own views changed within a few years. Rogers was an early opponent of Nicholas Bownde in the Sabbatarian controversy. Rogers became chaplain to Richard Bancroft, and assisted him in literary work. He died at Horringer, and was buried in the chancel of his church there, 22 February 1616. Works Rogers's major works were on the English creed: * , and * . The latter subsequently appeared in another form as an exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles, entitled This book was later praised by Augustus Toplady, Edward Bickersteth and other evangelical divines, and was reprinted i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ickworth
Ickworth is a small civil parish, almost coextensive with the estate of the National Trust's Ickworth House, in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk, eastern England, south-west of Bury St Edmunds. The population of the parish was only minimal at the 2011 Census and is included in the civil parish of Lawshall. Landmarks Ickworth has three main clusters of the 12 listed structures in the Grade II* listed park and garden which are: The main park also had the only vineyard on National Trust land, until 2015 when it was grubbed up to allow the walled garden to be reinstated. An orchard of historic fruit trees was planted as the first stage of this plan. History Early history Mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as having 12 heads of household (nine of which villagers (villeins), three as smallholders) and four tied serfs (slaves), Ickworth rendered £3 and a small vill-tax to its overlords and was valued as being worth £4 per year. Modern history Samuel Lewis's overview o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melmoth Hall
Melmoth Hall (26 April 1811 – 4 October 1885) was an Australian cricketer. He played two first-class cricket matches for Victoria. In his professional career Hall was involved in agriculture and he moved to India after his cricket career where he farmed indigo and sugar. He returned to Australia in 1868, and began working for the Colonial Sugar Company giving talks on sugar-growing to farmers operating near Chatsworth on the Clarence River. He also contributed academic papers on the subject to journals. He retired in 1881 when his health began to fail and received a pension from the company. He died in 1885 after a period of illness. See also * List of Victoria first-class cricketers This is a list of Victoria first-class cricketers. The Victoria cricket team have played first-class cricket since 1851, when they played the Tasmania cricket team at Launceston. Below is a chronological list of cricketers to have represented Vi ... References 1811 births 1885 dea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Covel
John Covel (2 April 1638 – 19 December 1722) was a clergyman and scientist who became Master of Christ's College, Cambridge and vice-chancellor of the University. Diplomacy Born at Horningsheath, Suffolk, the son of William Covel, John Covel was educated at Bury St Edmunds school and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was made a fellow in 1659. In 1670 he went to Constantinople as Chaplain to the Levant Company. For two years he was in sole charge of the English Embassy there after the previous ambassador died. Travel and scholarship Covel travelled widely in Asia Minor and described the buildings and plants which he saw. He purchased many Greek manuscripts (including codices 65, 110, 321, 322, and ℓ 150). After his return, Covel spent the winter of 1680/1681 in Suffolk suffering with fever, before becoming Chaplain to the Princess of Orange in The Hague The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawstead
Hawstead is a small village and civil parish in the West Suffolk (district), West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. It is located south of Bury St. Edmunds between the B1066 road, B1066 and A134 roads, in a fork formed by the River Lark and a small tributary. The place-name 'Hawstead' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as ''Haldsteada''. The name is thought to mean 'a place of shelter for cattle'. Hawstead Place, previously the seat of the Drury family, is now a farmhouse. William Drury (MP for Suffolk), Sir William Drury was High Sheriff of Suffolk, sheriff and knight of the shire for Suffolk (UK Parliament constituency), Suffolk. Lt Col Edward Robert Drury, son of Rev Sir William Drury, was the first General Manager and President of the Queensland Bank of Australia now the National Australia Bank; he named his Queensland home 'Hawstead' in 1875. Lady Drury's Closet (also known as the Hawstead Panels), now in Christchurch Mansion in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whepstead
Whepstead is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England, located south of Bury St Edmunds. Once the property of Bury Abbey it became a possession of the Drury family at the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century. Whepstead Church is dedicated to St Petronilla the only such dedication in England. In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson described Whepstead in his Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales like this: ''"WHEPSTEAD, a parish, with a village, in Thingoe district, Suffolk; 4½ miles SSW of Bury-St. Edmunds r. station. It has a post-office under Bury-St. Edmunds. Acres, 2,670. Real property, £4,281. Pop., 677. Houses, 140. The property is much subdivided. Plumpton House is the seat of W. R. Bevan, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £600.* Patron, A. R. Steele, Esq. The church is good; and there are an endowed school with £35 a year, and charities £50"'' Hamlets in the parish of Whepstead includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chevington, Suffolk
Chevington is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in East Anglia, England. Located around 10 km south-west of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 630, reducing to 602 at the 2011 Census. The parish also contains the hamlets of Broad Green and Tan Office Green. Name The name Chevington is from Old English ''Ceofan-tūn'', meaning the farm of a man named ''Ceofa'' (genitive case ''Ceofan''). It appeared in Domesday Book as ''Ceuentuna''; 200 years later it was typically ''Chevintun'' or ''Cheveton'' and from 1535 the modern spelling Chevington is recorded. The etymology proves that the ''-ing-'' syllable is not original, but is by analogy with similar names. History Chevington was a part of the Saxon estate of Britulf, but was given over to the Abbey of St Edmund after the Norman Conquest. The Abbey in Bury had been founded by the Benedictines in 1020 to shelter the remains of St Edmund and became one of the largest in England. 108 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nowton
Nowton is a small village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located on the southern edge of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was estimated to be 140.Estimates of Total Population of Areas in Suffolk Suffolk County Council At the 2011 census 163 people were recorded as living in the village. The village is situated to the south of the vast Nowton Park. The park is almost 200 acres in size and is landscaped in typical Victorian style. It is owned by West Suffolk district council and managed for recr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
