Hengrave
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2025}}
{{Infobox UK place
|country = England
|static_image = UK Hengrave.jpg
|static_image_caption=Signpost in Hengrave
|coordinates = {{coord|52.2857|0.6757|display=inline,title}}
|official_name =Hengrave
|population = 173
|shire_district= West Suffolk district
|shire_county= Suffolk
|region=East of England
|constituency_westminster= West Suffolk (UK Parliament constituency)
|post_town= Bury St Edmunds
|postcode_district = IP28
|postcode_area= IP
|dial_code= 01284
|os_grid_reference= TL825686
}}
Hengrave is a small village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England. It is to the North of the town of Bury St Edmunds along the A1101 road. It is surrounded by the parishes of Flempton, Culford, Fornham St Genevieve, Fornham All Saints and Risby.{{cite web |title=Places within 6 miles of Hengrave |url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/node/81600/places/6 |website=www.genuki.org.uk |publisher=Genuki |access-date=19 November 2021 |language=en}} The River Lark provides the North East boundary of the parish.{{cite web |title=Hengrave, Suffolk |url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SFK/Hengrave |website=www.genuki.org.uk |publisher=Genuki |access-date=19 November 2021 |language=en}}
History
The village is recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 as Hemegretham meaning the homestead or village of Hemma's meadow.{{Cite book |last=Mills|first=A. D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=br8xcW1f_a8C&q=gr%C4%93d+meadow&pg=PT386b|title=A Dictionary of British Place-Names |date=2003-10-09 |publisher=OUP Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-157847-2 |language=en}} This is derived from the old Frisian word grēd meaning meadow or pasture.{{Cite web |title=Key to English Place-names |url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Suffolk/Hengrave |access-date=2020-06-30 |website=kepn.nottingham.ac.uk}} The parish was located in Thingoe Hundred.{{cite book |last1=Gage |first1=John |title=The history and antiquities of Hengrave, in Suffolk. |date=1822 |publisher=J. Carpenter; J. Deck |location=London & Bury St Edmunds |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31158005597892&view=1up&seq=15&skin=2021}}
Biodiversity
The botanist Thomas Gage lived in Hengrave Hall and produced an account of plants, moss and lichen which he had found in the village, which was published in The History and Antiquities of Hengrave in Suffolk{{cite web |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011983971 |title=The History and Antiquities of Hengrave in Suffolk |date=1822 |access-date=2024-10-25 |author =John Gage |website=catalog.hathitrust.org}} (1822) by his uncle, the historian John Gage Rokewode, who also lived in Hengrave Hall.
See also
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Category:Borough of St Edmundsbury
Category:Civil parishes in Suffolk
Category:West Suffolk District
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