Horringer, formerly also called Horningsheath, is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

in the

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district of

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in eastern England. It lies on the A143 about two miles south-west of

Bury St Edmunds Bury St Edmunds (), commonly referred to locally as ''Bury,'' is a cathedral as well as market town and civil parish in the West Suffolk District, West Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England.OS Explorer map 211: Bury St. Edmunds an ...

. The population in 2011 was 1055.

Heritage

Horringer was earlier known as Horningsheath. The school kept this spelling until after the Second World War. The village includes the main entrance to

Ickworth house Ickworth House is a English country house, country house at Ickworth, near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, England. It is a Neoclassical architecture, neoclassical building set in parkland. The house was the residence of the Marquess of Bristol, M ...

, a Neoclassical country house which was the seat of the Earls and Marquesses of Bristol until the 7th Marquess sold the lease to the

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Notable residents

In birth order: * Thomas Rogers (c. 1553–1616), a religious controversialist and cleric was the Rector of St Leonards, Horringer, from 1581 until his death. *

William Bedell The Rt. Rev. William Bedell, D.D. (; 22 September 15717 February 1642), was an English Anglican bishop who served as the 5th Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1627 to 1629. He also served as Lord Bishop of Kilmore and as a member of t ...

(1571-1642), rector of Horringer 1616-1627, subsequently Provost of

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and Lord Bishop of Kilmore, patron of the translation of the Old Testament into the

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. * John Covel (1638-1722), clergyman and scientist who became Master of

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and vice-chancellor of the University * Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, born Elizabeth Christiana Hervey in Horringer on 13 May 1759, became a notable society hostess and patron of the arts. Her father,

Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol Frederick Augustus Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol, (1 August 1730 – 8 July 1803), was an 18th-century Church of England, Anglican prelate. Elected Bishop of Cloyne in 1767 and Translation (ecclesiastical), translated to the see of Derry in 1 ...

, later

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(1767–1768) and

Bishop of Derry The Bishop of Derry is an episcopal title which takes its name after the monastic settlement originally founded at Daire Calgach and later known as Daire Colm Cille, Anglicised as Derry. In the Catholic Church it remains a separate title, but in ...

(1768–1803), believed in equality among religions. * Melmoth Hall (1811–1885), born here, became a first-class cricketer in Australia. *The remains of Victor Hervey, 6th Marquess of Bristol (1915–1985) were returned from

Menton Menton (; in classical norm or in Mistralian norm, , ; ; or depending on the orthography) is a Commune in France, commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region on the French Riviera, close to the Italia ...

, France, by his son in 2010 for a funeral at Horringer before burial at St Mary's Church, Ickworth.Haden-Guest, Anthony
"The end of the peer"
''The Observer'', 22 January 2006. Accessed May 17, 2008.

Demography

According to the

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, the parish of Horringer at the time of the

United Kingdom Census 2001 A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001. This was the 20th Census in the United Kingdom, UK census and recorded a resident population of 58,789,194. The 2001 UK census was organise ...

had a population of 901 in 397 households, which rose to 1,055 at the 2011 Census. The ward population of 2,593 in the 2011 Census was estimated at 2,617 in 2019.City Population Retrieved 25 January 2021.
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Population change

Location grid

References

External links

Village website
{{authority control Villages in Suffolk Civil parishes in Suffolk Borough of St Edmundsbury