Hengrave, Suffolk
Historical Description
Hengrave, a parish in Suffolk, on the river Lark, 4 miles NNW from Bury St Edmunds, and 2½ NE from Saxham station on the G.E.R. Post town and money order office, Bury St Edmunds; telegraph office, Culford. Acreage, 897; population of the civil parish, 189; of the ecclesiastical, 376. The manor belonged to the Hengraves, passed to the Greys, the Crown, the Ritsons, the Darcies, and the Gages, and belongs now to the Lysaght family. Hengrave Hall was built in 1538 by Sir T. Ritson, and is a fine specimen of Tudor architecture in brick with stone facings standing in a park of 300 acres. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Flempton, in the diocese of Ely; joint net yearly value,, £352. The church is ancient with a round tower, has not been used as a church for a long period, and contains many monuments of the successive owners of the manor and other persons.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Suffolk | |
| Hundred | Thingoe | |
| Poor Law union | Thingoe |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Hengrave from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Hengrave are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Suffolk papers online: