Hemingstone is a village and
civil parish
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in the
Mid Suffolk
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district of
Suffolk
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in eastern
England
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located 6.5 miles (11 km) north of
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 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
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granted to
Roland the Farter
Roland the Farter (known in contemporary records as Roland le Fartere, Roulandus le Fartere, Rollandus le Pettus, or Roland le Petour) was a medieval flatulist who lived in 12th-century England. He was given Hemingstone manor in Suffolk and of l ...
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 the early 17th century. It is a Grade I
listed building
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.
The Suffolk folk singer
Percy Webb was born in Hemingstone in 1897.
Parish church
The parish church is dedicated to
St. Gregory and is Grade I listed.
It lies away from the village.
References
*''National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland'', (London: Virtue, 1868)
*Mortlock, Derek P. ''The Popular Guide to Suffolk Churches 1 - West Suffolk'' (Acorn, 1988)
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Villages in Suffolk
Mid Suffolk District
Civil parishes in Suffolk
Bosmere and Claydon Hundred