Hawstead is a small village and

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in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. It is located south of

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between the B1066 and

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s, in a fork formed by the River Lark and a small tributary. The place-name 'Hawstead' is first attested in the

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of 1086, where it appears as ''Haldsteada''. The name is thought to mean 'a place of shelter for cattle'. Hawstead Place, previously the seat of the Drury family, is now a farmhouse. Sir William Drury was sheriff and knight of the shire for Suffolk. Lt Col Edward Robert Drury, son of Rev Sir William Drury, was the first General Manager and President of the Queensland Bank of Australia now the National Australia Bank; he named his Queensland home 'Hawstead' in 1875. Lady Drury's Closet (also known as the Hawstead Panels), now in

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, is a series of painted wooden panels of early 17th-century date. They originally decorated a painted closet adjacent to a bedroom in Hawstead Place. It is believed they were made for Anne Drury, Lady Drury, wife of Sir Robert Drury, who died in 1624.

Demography

According to the

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, at the time of the

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, Hawstead had a population of 334 with 121 households. falling to a population of 134 in 56 households at the 2011 Census.

Population change

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References

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1841-1911 Census Returns for Hawstead
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