Hengrave is a small village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

in the

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district, in the county of

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, England. It is to the North the town of

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 – ...

along the

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. It is surrounded by the parishes of

Flempton Flempton is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. It is on the A1101 road 5 miles NW from Bury St Edmunds. Flempton takes its name from the Flemings who came from Flanders and settled the area in Anglo ...

Culford Culford is a village and civil parish about north of Bury St Edmunds and north east of London in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. According to the 2011 Census the parish had a population of 578, a decrease from 620 recorded at ...

Fornham St Genevieve Fornham St Genevieve is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Location The village is located around north of Fornham St Martin and a north of Bury St Edmunds. In 2005 its population was 110. ...

Fornham All Saints Fornham All Saints is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England in the West Suffolk district. It is north-northwest of the town of Bury St Edmunds and 500m west of Fornham St Genevieve. The village sign depicts a helmet and crossed swor ...

and Risby. The

River Lark The River Lark is a river in England that crosses the border between Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. It is a tributary of the River Great Ouse, and was extended when that river was re-routed as part of drainage improvements. It is thought to have be ...

provides the North East boundary of the parish.

History

The village is recorded in the

Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...

in 1086 as ''Hemegretham'' meaning the homestead or village of Hemma's meadow. This is derived from the

old Frisian Old Frisian was a West Germanic language spoken between the 8th and 16th centuries along the North Sea coast, roughly between the mouths of the Rhine and Weser rivers. The Frisian settlers on the coast of South Jutland (today's Northern Friesl ...

word ''grēd'' meaning meadow or pasture. The parish was located in

Thingoe Hundred Thingoe was a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of . One of the smaller hundreds of Suffolk, around wide and long, Thingoe contained the borough of Bury St Edmunds on its eastern border, though the town was considered a separate jurisdiction. The r ...

Biodiversity

The botanist

Thomas Gage General Thomas Gage (10 March 1718/192 April 1787) was a British Army general officer and colonial official best known for his many years of service in North America, including his role as British commander-in-chief in the early days of th ...

lived in Hengrave Hall and produced an account of plants, moss and lichen which he had found in the village, which was published in
The History and Antiquities of Hengrave in Suffolk
' (1822) by his uncle, the historian

John Gage Rokewode John Gage Rokewode (13 September 1786 – 14 October 1842 at Claughton Hall, Lancashire) was a historian and antiquarian. Life He was the fourth son of Sir Thomas Gage of Hengrave, Suffolk and took the name Rokewode in 1838 when he succeede ...

, who also lived in Hengrave Hall.

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Villages in Suffolk Borough of St Edmundsbury Civil parishes in Suffolk West Suffolk District {{Suffolk-geo-stub

History

Biodiversity

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