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Ixworth is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk, England, north-east of Bury St Edmunds on the A143 road to Diss and south-east of Thetford. The parish had a population of 2,365 at the 2011 Census.
After the fort went out of use a civilian settlement was established at the site, possibly with a pottery industry. Ixworth became an important junction in the Roman road system of East Anglia History. Ixworth and Ixworth Thorpe parish council. Retrieved 23 January 2013. St Mary, Ixworth, The Suffolk Churches Site. and the Peddars Way ran from Ixworth to Holme next the Sea on the north coast of Norfolk. Peddars Way, English Heritage. Retrieved 22 January 2013. The foundations of a Roman building with hypocaust were discovered in 1834 and are believed to be a villa and bath house complex. Ixowth Roman villa, English Heritage. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
An early pagan cemetery with Anglo-Saxon burial urns was discovered south-west of the church some time before 1849, Monument No. 385465, English Heritage. Retrieved 22 January 2013. and a number of other post-Roman archaeological finds have been discovered in the area. In 1856, the Ixworth Cross, a gold pectoral cross covered in dating from the 7th century, was discovered in what is believed to be another Anglo-Saxon cemetery. Monument No. 385467, English Heritage. Retrieved 22 January 2013. Anglo-Saxon Ixworth Cross, Sir John Evans's collections of artefacts – British, Ashmolean Museum. Retrieved 22 January 2013. Ixworth Cross, Anglo-Saxon Discovery, Ashmolean Museum. Retrieved 22 March 2013. The cross is decorated using cloisonné work and was donated to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford in 1909. It was discovered in a rare bed burial. Anglo-Saxon Christian grave find near Cambridge 'extremely rare', BBC Cambridgeshire news website, 12 March 2012. Retrieved 2013-01-22.
The first recorded name for Ixworth is from 1025 as Gyxeweorde meaning "Enclosure of a man called Gisca". It was mentioned again as Gyxeweor∂e in the S1225 charter of 1040 where Thurketel grants the lands to Bury St Edmunds Abbey. The settlement was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Icsewrda" or "Giswortha". Ixworth, Domesday Book online. Retrieved 22 January 2013. The village, which was in the Hundred of Blackbourn, was relatively very large at this time with 51 households. Ixworth, Open Domesday. Retrieved 22 January 2013. It was held by Robert Blunt or Blount in 1086, having formed part of the lands controlled by the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds in 1066.
Ixworth Priory was founded as an Augustinians priory in about 1170 and dissolved in 1537. Ixworth Priory, English Heritage. Retrieved 22 January 2013. Remains of the priory include the almost complete east range whilst some of the west range can be found incorporated into a house, known as Ixworth Abbey. Ixworth Abbey, Ixworth, British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 23 January 2013. These remains are a Grade I listed building and include elements from the early 13th century.
Ixworth is the site the earliest rural council housing built in England. 1–2, Stow Road, Ixworth, British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 23 January 2013. Four pairs of houses were built in 1893–94 for Thingoe Rural District Council, encouraged by the Ixworth Labourers' Association. These were built under the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890, the first to allow rural councils to build their own housing. The act was only adopted by eight councils. The houses exist today in a largely unaltered condition. Two of them, on Stow Road, are Grade II .
A Starfish site was operated in the north-east of the parish to deflect enemy bombing from RAF Honington. Airfield bombing decoy Q28B, English Heritage. Retrieved 22 January 2013
A former pumping station at Bailypool Lane off Stow Lane was given planning permission in 2012 for conversion to a residential dwelling.
The village contains a number of other listed buildings, many on the High Street, some of which have medieval elements. Listed Buildings in Ixworth, Suffolk, England, British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 23 January 2013. A variety of local services remain in the village, including shops and public houses as well as a village hall, doctor's surgery, a retained fire station and police station sharing the same building. About us, Ixworth and Ixworth Thorpe parish council. Retrieved 23 January 2013. Emergency services join force in Ixworth , Suffolk County Council, 9 January 2013. Retrieved 2013-01-23.
Ixworth is served by rural bus routes Bury St Edmunds East , Suffolk County Council. Retrieved 22 January 2013. and is on the National Express London to Great Yarmouth coach route. The village was bypassed in 1986 when the A143 was diverted to run to the south-east of the village.
^Ixworth Roman villa, English Heritage. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
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