Ickworth is a small

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, almost coextensive with the estate of the

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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 ...

, in the

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district of

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, eastern

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, south-west of

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. The population of the parish was only minimal at the 2011 Census and is included in the civil parish of

Lawshall Lawshall is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England. Located around a mile off the A134 between Bury St Edmunds and Sudbury, Suffolk, Sudbury, it is part of Babergh District, Babergh district. The parish has nine settlements comprising ...

Landmarks

Ickworth has three main clusters of the 12 listed structures in the

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park and garden which are: The main park also had the only

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on National Trust land, until 2015 when it was grubbed up to allow the walled garden to be reinstated. An orchard of historic fruit trees was planted as the first stage of this plan.

History

Early history

Mentioned in the

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of 1086 as having 12 heads of household (nine of which villagers (

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s), three as smallholders) and four tied serfs (slaves), Ickworth rendered £3 and a small vill-tax to its overlords and was valued as being worth £4 per year.

Modern history

Samuel Lewis's overview of 1848 reads: The bulk of the land formed Lord Bristol's main freehold estate which was sold for public benefit to the National Trust to pay the precursor to

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in 1956. In 2005 its population was estimated at 30.

Demography

The 2011 census does not provide a population (see above) although Ickworth is part of the west of Census Output Area E00153548, which had 275 inhabitants of which 185 lived in a detached dwelling, 16 lived in a purpose-built block of flats or tenement, five in part of a converted or bed-sit and one in a commercial building.2011 Census
E00153548 as parish facility is faulty or publicly prohibited for postcode IP29 5QE. Retrieved April 2013

Transport

To the east is the A143 which is linked to the A14 by the shortest route via a turning onto a minor straight road in

Horringer Horringer, formerly also called Horningsheath, is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. It lies on the A143 about two miles south-west of Bury St Edmunds. The population in 2011 was 1055. Herit ...

, Westley Lane, immediately to the north. The A14 is a main East-West route in England which then leads west to: *The A11, its south spur onto the M11 *The M11 at

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*The A1 at

Huntingdon Huntingdon is a market town in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. The town was given its town charter by John, King of England, King John in 1205. It was the county town of the historic county of Huntingdonshire. Oliver C ...

*The M1/M6 junction at Swinford, Leicestershire

References

External links

Neighbouring substantive village website: Horringer
{{authority control Villages in Suffolk Civil parishes in Suffolk Borough of St Edmundsbury