HONINGTON
"HONINGTON, a parish in the hundred of Blackbourn, county Suffolk, 3 miles N. W. of Ixworth, its post town, and 8 from Bury. The village is of small extent, and is situated on a branch of the river Waveney. It was the birth-place of Robert Bloomfield, the poet. The tithes, a portion of which is paid to the Rector of Great Fakenham, have been commuted for a rent-charge of £336. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely, value £332, in the patronage of the lord chancellor. The church, dedicated to All Saints, is of brick, with a thatched roof and a tower of stone. An allotment of 25 acres of land was awarded to the poor in lieu of the right of cutting furze, which now produces about £40 per annum."
Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson © 2003
Cemeteries
- Cemetery, Church Road, Cemetery
- All Saints, Church Road, Church of England
Census
Church History
Descriptions and photographs of churches in the parish may be found in Simon Knott's Suffolk Churches.Church Records
- Churches in Honington:
- All Saints, Church Road, Church of England
- Chapel, Mill Road, Primitive Methodist
- Chapel, Ixworth Road, Wesleyan Methodist
- Service Church, Heath Road-Honington Airfield, Unknown
- St Edmund's Station Church, Green Lane-RAF Honington, Unknown
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Description and Travel
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