Hemingstone is a village and parish in Suffolk

Suffolk

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, England

England

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 6.5 miles (11 km) north of Ipswich

Ipswich

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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

Coddenham

Coddenham is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located to the north of the A14 road, the parish also includes the hamlet of Coddenham Green. In 2005 its population was 570....

 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 annual rent for the manor was 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

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. It lies away from the village, just south of Coddenham on the B1078 road between Needham Market

Needham Market

Needham Market is a town in Suffolk, England. It initially grew around the wool combing industry, until the onset of the plague, which swept the town from 1663 to 1665. To prevent the spread of the disease, the town was chained at either end, which succeeded in its task but at the cost of...

 and Wickham Market

Wickham Market

Wickham Market is a large village situated in the River Deben valley of Suffolk, England, within the Suffolk Coastal heritage area.It is on the A12 trunk road thirteen miles north-east of the county town of Ipswich, five miles north-east of Woodbridge. Its railway station is located approximately...

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