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Population
  
244 (2011 Census)

Region
  
Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Local time
  
Thursday 2:11 PM

District
  
OS grid reference
  
TM150530

Country
  
Post town
  
Shire county
  
Hemingstone

Weather
  
14°C, Wind W at 31 km/h, 46% Humidity

Hemingstone is a village and parish in Suffolk, England 6.5 miles (11 km) north of Ipswich.

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Map of Hemingstone, Ipswich, UK

Hemingstone lies in the hundred of Bosmere. It is a small parish devoted largely to fruit farming with no significant amenities other than the village hall known as "Hemingstone Hut". The residents shop at the adjacent village of Coddenham if they do not choose to go further afield. The largest employer in the village is Stonham Hedgerow, a family business manufacturing jams and preserves.

History

According to the 13th century Liber Feodorum (Book of Fees), the fee tail granted to Roland the Farter for the manor was conditioned on the performance of "unum saltum et siffletum et unum bumbulum" (one jump, one whistle, and one fart) at the king's court every Christmas.

In 1597 the entire parish was cited before a church court for laxity. This may have been the influence of the incumbent manorial lord, Ralph Cantrell, a recusant Catholic.

Hemingstone Hall is a brick-built Jacobean country house built in 1620.

The Suffolk folk singer Percy Webb was born in Hemingstone in 1897.

Parish church

The parish church is dedicated to St. Gregory. It lies away from the village, just south of Coddenham on the B1078 road between Needham Market and Wickham Market.

References

Hemingstone Wikipedia


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