Heveringham, Suffolk
Historical Description
Heveringham, a village and a parish in Suffolk, situated on the river Biyth, 5 miles SW by W from Halesworth station on the G.E.R., with a post office under Saxmundham; money order and telegraph office, Peasenhall. Area of parish, 7669 acres; population, 312. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £415, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor. The church is an ancient building of flint in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, and western embattled tower. There is a Wesleyan chapel, and there are some valuable charities. Heveningham Hall, the seat of Lord Huntingfield, is a large mansion, having a frontage nearly 3.00 feet in length, and it is surrounded by a well-wooded park of 300 acres. Lord Huntingfield is lord of the manor and chief landowner.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Suffolk | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Heveningham St. Margaret | |
| Hundred | Blything | |
| Poor Law union | Blything |
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 Heveringham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Heveningham (St. Margaret))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Heveringham 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: