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 authorit ...
in the
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* West Suffolk District, a local government district established in 2019
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district, in the county of
Suffolk, England. It is to the North the town of
Bury St Edmunds along the
A1101 road
A11, A 11 or A-11 may refer to:
Military
* Aero A.11, a Czechoslovakian bomber produced before World War II
* Consolidated A-11, an attack version of the Consolidated P-30 fighter plane of the 1930s
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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 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 ...
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 manus ...
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 Fri ...
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.
See also
*
Hengrave Hall
Hengrave Hall is a Grade I listed Tudor manor house in Hengrave near Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk, England and was the seat of the Kitson and Gage families 1525–1887. Both families were Roman Catholic recusants.
Architecture
Work on the ho ...
*
Church of St John Lateran, Hengrave
The Church of St John Lateran, Hengrave is the former parish church of Hengrave, Suffolk. In 1589 this parish was consolidated with that of adjacent Flempton, and since then it has solely been used as a place of interment for the residents of H ...
References
External links
Villages in Suffolk
Borough of St Edmundsbury
Civil parishes in Suffolk
West Suffolk District
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