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England
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county
County
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of Suffolk
Suffolk
Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...
, about 3 miles west from the centre of Stowmarket
Stowmarket
-See also:* Stowmarket Town F.C.* Stowmarket High School-External links:* * * * *...
near to the Golf Club.
Recorded in Domesday variously as "Aneus", "Anehus" "Anuhus" and "Anhus" (means a lonely cottage or house), today it is mainly modern housing for commuters with a few scattered older buildings.
Robert Drury was granted, in 1510, licence to crenellate Battlement
Battlement
A battlement in defensive architecture, such as that of city walls or castles, comprises a parapet , in which portions have been cut out at intervals to allow the discharge of arrows or other missiles. These cut-out portions form crenels...
his manors of Hansted Hall, Buknahams and Onhowshalle, Suff. Three fragments of a moat around the site of Onehouse Hall (VCH). Homestead Moat, in good condition, comprising two waterfilled arms and one dry arm. The remaining N. arm has been destroyed by farm buildings. The Hall was pulled down before 1847 (Copinger), probably in the mid C17 when the Callum's (the Drury heirs) constructed Hardwick House. They seem to have destroyed the other two properties at this time.
The House of Industry was built in 1779 to serve the entire hundred of Stow (hundred)
Stow (hundred)
Stow was a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of .Stow Hundred a fertile and picturesque district in central Suffolk around seven miles in length and breadth. It is bounded by Cosford, Bosmere and Claydon, Thedwestry, Blackbourn and Hartismere Hundreds...
. Later it became the Union Workhouse on Union Road (extreme east).
Nearby is the Paupers' Graves, now a conservation area owned and maintained by the parish council.
Until the 1950s it was a scattering of some dozen houses along Lower Road (to the south) and about 15 houses on Upper Road (to the north) with another 5 on Union Road leading to Stowmarket
Stowmarket
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. By the late 1960s housing development had begun but there are still people in the village who remember streams and ditches where houses and roads now stand. With the major build of 150 houses in the 70's Upper Road became Forest Road and the Northfield Estate came into being.
With a population of 920, it has a small number of businesses including a computer
Computer
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company and a local hair stylists. There is also a community centre shared by neighbouring villages, Shelland
Shelland
Shelland is a small village located just off the A14, 4 miles west of Stowmarket in Suffolk, England.Shelland consists of roughly 10 houses, a church and Shelland Green.Shelland is the second smallest village in suffolk, after the village of Shelly....
and Harleston
Harleston
Harleston may refer to:*Harleston, Devon*Harleston, Norfolk*Harleston, Suffolk...
(further northwest), where children and adults alike enjoy a wide number of activities including a weekly youth club
Youth club
A youth club or youth social club is a place where young people can meet and enjoy activities such as football, soccer, basketball, table tennis, or video games, and other religious, sports activities are frequently sponsored by a community center....
. The 3 villages also share a monthly magazine named OHSmag.
Shepherd & Dog is the only pub in the village and is at the east end of Lower Road near to the old animal pound.
The playing field has play equipment such as swings and an assault course and two football goals but no current football team.
Its church, St John the Baptist, is one of 38 existing round-tower church
Round-tower church
Round-tower churches are a type of church found mainly in England, almost solely in East Anglia; of about 185 surviving examples in the country, 124 are in Norfolk, 38 in Suffolk, 6 in Essex, 3 in Sussex and 2 each in Cambridgeshire and Berkshire. There is evidence of about twenty round-tower...
es in Suffolk
Suffolk
Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...
and was close to the Hall. The Church of St John The Baptist sat in the fields midway between Lower and Upper Road. The church of St John the Baptist is a beautiful small flint, stone and brick structure, with a round tower containing two bells, close by the ancient site of Onehouse Hall. There was a church in Saxon times, as recorded in the Domesday Book
Domesday Book
Domesday Book , now held at The National Archives, Kew, Richmond upon Thames in South West London, is the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086...
, but the present church is thought to have started its life during the great Norman build and rebuild period following the Conquest. Archeologists now date the earliest part of the building as of the 12th century. The round tower of the parish church has recently been restored.
Notable people
- Charles Davy (Rector) (1722–1797), Rector of Onehouse, miscellaneous author (Conjectural observations on the origin and progress of alphabetic writing, London 1772)
- John WarkJohn WarkJohn Wark is a Scottish former footballer who spent most of his playing time with Ipswich Town. He won a record four Player of the Year awards before becoming one of the four inaugural members of the club's Hall of Fame...
, Ipswich Town and Scotland footballer - Trevor WhymarkTrevor WhymarkTrevor Whymark is a former English international footballer who played in the Football League in the 1970s and 1980s, notably with Ipswich Town....
, Ipswich Town and England footballer
External links
- Village Website
- Website with photos of Onehouse St John the Baptist, a round-tower churchRound-tower churchRound-tower churches are a type of church found mainly in England, almost solely in East Anglia; of about 185 surviving examples in the country, 124 are in Norfolk, 38 in Suffolk, 6 in Essex, 3 in Sussex and 2 each in Cambridgeshire and Berkshire. There is evidence of about twenty round-tower...
- Stowmarket Sport (Grassroots coverage of sports, clubs and teams in a three-mile radius of Stowmarket)