Hintlesham is a small village in
Suffolk
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, England, situated roughly halfway between
Ipswich
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and
Hadleigh. It is in the
Belstead Brook electoral division
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of
Suffolk County Council
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History
Establ ...
.
The village is notable for
Hintlesham Hall
Hintlesham is a small village in Suffolk, England, situated roughly halfway between Ipswich and Hadleigh. It is in the Belstead Brook electoral division of Suffolk County Council.
The village is notable for Hintlesham Hall, a 16th-century ...
, a 16th-century
Grade I listed
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country house, now operated as a hotel.
The church
The
parish church
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of St Nicolas is a typical
Decorated church, and therefore not typical for Suffolk. It has many memorials to the Tymperley family and the
squint
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in the north wall shows that the vestry was once a chapel, possibly a chantry to the family, converted to secular use in the 1540s. The stairway to the
roodloft in the south wall is one of the best preserved in the county. For about 350 years Hintlesham has been a joint parish with
Chattisham
Chattisham is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England. Located around two miles west of Ipswich and half a mile south of the A1071, it is part of Babergh district. In 2006 its population was 140, increasing to 167 at the 2011 Census. I ...
whose church, St Margaret's, stands about a mile away, separated by a valley of meadows and woods.
Hintlesham Hall
For six years from 1448, Hintlesham Manor, a single storey
Tudor Hall, was owned by Sir John Fortescue who used one of the rooms as a local court. In 1454 the manor was purchased by John Timperley.
In August 1720 the hall was bought by Richard Powys, a Principal Clerk to
The Treasury, and the Powys family lived there for nearly 30 years, after which it was sold to the lawyer
Richard Lloyd, a future solicitor-general, and passed down through his descendants until the early 1900s.
In 1972 the hall was bought by chef
Robert Carrier for £32,000 () and was restored. The business was later owned by the hotelier and broadcaster
Ruth Watson
Ruth (or its variants) may refer to:
Places
France
* Château de Ruthie, castle in the commune of Aussurucq in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département of France
Switzerland
* Ruth, a hamlet in Cologny
United States
* Ruth, Alabama
* Ruth, Ar ...
and her husband. Today the hall is operated as a country-house hotel.
Amenities
The village has its own
Church of England
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Voluntary Aided
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junior school.
The village public house is The George, the original premises of which burned down at the end of the 19th century.
Notable residents
*
Richard Lloyd (1697 – 1761),
Solicitor General for England and Wales
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and
Member of Parliament
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for
Mitchell
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People
*Mitchell (surname)
*Mitchell (given name)
Places Australia
* Mitchell, Australian Capital Territory, a light-industrial estate
* Mitchell, New South Wales, a suburb of Bathurst
* Mitchell, Northern Territo ...
.
*
Richard Savage Lloyd (c.1730 –1810), landowner and
Member of Parliament
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for
Totnes
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*
Mary Stopford, Countess of Courtown (1736 –1810)
*
Robert Hamilton Lloyd-Anstruther
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The son of Captain James Hamilton Lloyd-Anstruther and his wi ...
(1841 – 1914),
army
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officer and
Conservative Party
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politician,
Member of Parliament
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for
Woodbridge Woodbridge may refer to:
Places
Australia
*Woodbridge, Western Australia formerly called ''West Midland''
*Woodbridge, Tasmania
Canada
*Woodbridge, Ontario
England
*Woodbridge, Suffolk, the location of
** Woodbridge (UK Parliament constituency ...
.
*
Havelock Ellis
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(1859 – 1939), physician,
eugenicist
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, writer,
progressive
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intellectual
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.
*
Stephen Moulsdale
Stephen Richard Platt Moulsdale (18 August 1872, County Sligo – 25 October 1944, Hintlesham) was an Irish Anglican priest and academic administrator.
Life and career
The eldest son of the Revd T. H. P. Moulsdale, an Anglo-Irish cleric who was ...
(1872 – 1944), priest and
Vice-Chancellor
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of
Durham University
, mottoeng = Her foundations are upon the holy hills (Psalm 87:1)
, established = (university status)
, type = Public
, academic_staff = 1,830 (2020)
, administrative_staff = 2,640 (2018/19)
, chancellor = Sir Thomas Allen
, vice_chan ...
.
*
Percy Edwards
Percy Edwards (1 June 1908 – 7 June 1996) was an English animal impersonator, entertainer and ornithologist.
Biography
As a child, Edwards was fascinated by the wildlife he found in his local area, and by the age of 12 was accomplished eno ...
(1908 – 1996), animal impersonator,
ornithologist
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and entertainer.
*
Robert Carrier (1923 – 2006),
chef
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,
restaurateur
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and
cookery
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writer.
*
Ruth Watson
Ruth (or its variants) may refer to:
Places
France
* Château de Ruthie, castle in the commune of Aussurucq in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département of France
Switzerland
* Ruth, a hamlet in Cologny
United States
* Ruth, Alabama
* Ruth, Ar ...
(born 1950), hotelier, broadcaster and
food
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writer.
References
External links
Hintlesham GeorgeHintlesham HallHintlesham Golf ClubHintlesham War Memorial- the stories behind the names on the war memorials in Hintlesham and Chattisham.
Villages in Suffolk
Babergh District
Civil parishes in Suffolk
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