Little Livermere is a 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 authorit ...
in England situated about north of
Bury St Edmunds, in an area of
Suffolk known as the
Breckland. The population at the 2011 Census is included in the civil parish of
Ampton
Ampton is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk District of Suffolk, England, about five miles north of Bury St Edmunds.
According to Eilert Ekwall the meaning of the village name is 'Amma's homestead'.
According to the 2001 census ...
.
In 1688 the Rector, James Paston, published a 39 page pamphlet supporting the repeal of the
penal laws.
The village was almost entirely demolished in the 18th century when a park and mere were created in the grounds of the stately home, Livermere Hall, which was itself destroyed in 1923. Livermere Hall is thought to be the setting
M.R. James
Montague Rhodes James (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936) was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918), and of Eton College (1918–1936). He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambrid ...
had in mind for Castringham Hall in his ghost story "
The Ash-tree", published in ''
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary'' in 1904. James was the son of the Rector of nearby
Great Livermere
Great Livermere is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. It is located around four miles north-east of the borough's largest town Bury St Edmunds.
Great Livermere also has a village hall located ...
.
All that remains of the village is the much decayed Church of
St Peter and
St Paul, which is roofless and considered unsafe, and a farmhouse that stands adjacent to the church on the edge of Ampton Water.
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Villages in Suffolk
Civil parishes in Suffolk
Borough of St Edmundsbury
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