Hengrave is a small village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England. It is to the North of the town of Bury St Edmunds along the A1101 road. It is surrounded by the parishes of Flempton, Culford, Fornham St Genevieve, Fornham All Saints and Risby.
History
The village is recorded in the
Domesday Book in 1086 as
Hemegretham meaning the homestead or village of Hemma's meadow.
This is derived from the
old Frisian word
grēd meaning meadow or pasture.
The parish was located in
Thingoe Hundred.
Biodiversity
The botanist Thomas Gage lived in Hengrave Hall and produced an account of plants, moss and lichen which he had found in the village, which was published in
The History and Antiquities of Hengrave in Suffolk (1822) by his uncle, the historian John Gage Rokewode, who also lived in Hengrave Hall.
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