Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HUNTINGFIELD

HUNTINGFIELD, a village and a parish in Blything district, Suffolk. The village stands 4½ miles SW of Halesworth r. station; and gives the title of Baron to the family of Vanneck.—The parish comprises 2, 134 acres; and its post town is Halesworth. Real property, £3,648. Pop., 369. Houses, 79. The manor belonged, in the time of the Confessor, to Edric of Laxfied; went, at the Conquest, to Robert Malet of Eye; passed in 1382, to the De la Poles; fell, early in the 16th century, to the Crown; was given by Henry VIII. to his divorced wife, Anne of Cleves, -and by Elizabeth to her cousin, Lord Hunsdon; went by marriage to the Cokes, -and by sale, in 1754, to the Vannecks; and belongs now to Lord Huntingfield. Queen Elizabeth was entertained, at Huntingfield Hall, by Lord Hunsdon; and she shot a buck from or near an oak here, which is still standing. The living is a rectory, united with rectory of Cookley, in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £1,054.* Patron, Lord Huntingfield. The church is of various dates, from about 1170 till about 1500; was restored in 1859-66; comprises nave, aisles, and chancel, with porch and tower; includes the mortuary chapel of the Vannecks; had formerly another chapel and a chantry; and contains an octagonal later English font. Charities, £50.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Huntingfield AP/CP       Blything RegD/PLU       Suffolk AncC
Place: Huntingfield

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