Chickering is a place in the
civil parish of
Hoxne, and the
Mid Suffolk district of
Suffolk
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, England. It is on the B118 Hoxne to
Stradbroke road, and approximately north from the
county town
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of
Ipswich.
Chickering is listed in the ''
Domesday Book'' (1086) as 'Ciccheli (n) ga'/'Cikelinga'/'Citiringa'. The entry shows Chickering in the Bishop's
Hundred of Suffolk, with 13 households, 4
freemen, 0.5 men's plough teams, a meadow of , and 20 pigs, with a tax revenue of 1.8 geld units. The freemen in 1066 were the
lords of the manor
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, with their overlord being Edric of Laxfield. In 1086, after the
Conquest
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Military history provides many examples of conquest: the Roman conquest of Britain, the Mauryan conquest of Afghanistan and of vast areas of the Indian subcontinent, t ...
, lordship was given to Walter son of Grip, under
Robert Malet
Robert Malet (c. 1050 – by 1130) was a Norman-English baron and a close advisor of Henry I.
Early life
Malet was the son of William Malet, and inherited his father's great honour of Eye in 1071. This made him one of the dozen or so great ...
who was
Tenant-in-chief to
William the Conqueror.
At Chickering is the seventeenth-century 'Chickering Hall' and farm; the hall is a Grade II
listed building within
Wingfield parish, with its farm partly extending into Hoxne. The water features at Chickering Hall have largely been filled in. In 1900 Chickering Hall and its farm, one of two farms, was trade directory listed in the parish of Hoxne. No other Chickering trades or occupations were listed at the time in Hoxne or Wingfield.
['' Kelly's Directory of Suffolk'' 1900, pp.172,173]
References
External links
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Hamlets in Suffolk
Hoxne
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