Hintlesham is a small village in
Suffolk
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, England, situated roughly halfway between
Ipswich
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and
Hadleigh. It is in the
Belstead Brook electoral division
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of
Suffolk County Council
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.
The village is notable for
Hintlesham Hall, a 16th-century
Grade I listed
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country house, now operated as a hotel.
The church
The
parish church
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of St Nicolas is a typical
Decorated church, and therefore not typical for Suffolk. It has many memorials to the Tymperley family and the
squint
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in the north wall shows that the vestry was once a chapel, possibly a chantry to the family, converted to secular use in the 1540s. The stairway to the
roodloft in the south wall is one of the best preserved in the county. For about 350 years Hintlesham has been a joint parish with
Chattisham whose church, St Margaret's, stands about a mile away, separated by a valley of meadows and woods.
Hintlesham Hall
For six years from 1448, Hintlesham Manor, a single-storey
Tudor Hall, was owned by Sir John Fortescue who used one of the rooms as a local court. In 1454 the manor was purchased by John Timperley.
In August 1720 the hall was bought by Richard Powys, a Principal Clerk to
The Treasury, and the Powys family lived there for nearly 30 years, after which it was sold to the lawyer
Richard Lloyd, a future solicitor-general, and passed down through his descendants until the early 1900s.
In 1972 the hall was bought by chef
Robert Carrier for £32,000 () and was restored. The business was later owned by the hotelier and broadcaster
Ruth Watson and her husband. Today the hall is operated as a country-house hotel.
Amenities
The village has its own
Church of England
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Voluntary Aided
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junior school.
The village public house is The George, the original premises of which burned down at the end of the 19th century.
Notable residents
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Richard Lloyd (1697 – 1761),
Solicitor General for England and Wales
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and
Member of Parliament for
Mitchell.
*
Richard Savage Lloyd (c.1730 –1810), landowner and
Member of Parliament for
Totnes
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*
Mary Stopford, Countess of Courtown (1736 –1810)
*
Robert Hamilton Lloyd-Anstruther (1841 – 1914),
army
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officer and
Conservative Party politician,
Member of Parliament for
Woodbridge.
*
Havelock Ellis
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(1859 – 1939), physician,
eugenicist
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, writer,
progressive intellectual.
*
Hensley Henson (1863 – 1947), former
Bishop of Durham
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.
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"Henson, Herbert Hensley (1863–1947)"
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*
Stephen Moulsdale (1872 – 1944), priest and
Vice-Chancellor
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of
Durham University
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.
*
Percy Edwards
Percy Edwards (1 June 1908 – 7 June 1996) was an English animal impersonator, entertainer and ornithologist.
Biography
When he was a child, bird impressions were often done with the assistance of hands on the mouth, however he was able to ...
(1908 – 1996), animal impersonator,
ornithologist
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and entertainer.
*
Robert Carrier (1923 – 2006), chef,
restaurateur
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and cookery writer.
*
Ruth Watson (born 1950), hotelier, broadcaster and food writer.
References
External links
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St. Nicholas' ChurchHintlesham War Memorial- the stories behind the names on the war memorials in Hintlesham and Chattisham.
Villages in Suffolk
Babergh District
Civil parishes in Suffolk
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