Hemingstone, Suffolk

Historical Description

Hemingstone, a village and a parish in Suffolk, 3 miles NE from Claydon station on the G.E.E., 4 SW from Needham Market station, and 6¼ N by W from Ipswich. There is a post office under Needham Market; money order and telegraph office, Coddenham. The parish adjoins Shrubland Park, one of the seats of Lord de Saumerez. Acreage, 1449; population, 279. Hemingstone Hall is a brick Tudor edifice of 1625. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich in the gift of Lady de Saumerez. The church is an ancient Gothic building of stone and flint.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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 Hemingstone from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hemingston (St. Gregory))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Hemingstone 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:

• The Ipswich Journal
• East Suffolk Mercury and Lowestoft Weekly News
• Bury and Norwich Post
• Bury Free Press