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[[File:Ickworth House and Church - geograph.org.uk - 832141.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Ickworth House and Church]]
{{county|Suffolk}}
'''Ickworth''' is a small parish in [[Suffolk]], not a village any more but an area almost coextensive with the National Trust landscape estate, [[Ickworth House|Ickworth Park]], {{map|TL8161|beside}} the village of [[Horringer]].  It is 2½ miles southwest of [[Bury St Edmunds]].

==Landmarks==
Ickworth has three main clusters of the 12 listed structures in the Grade II* listed park and garden which are:<ref>The Park and Garden: {{NHLE|1000186}}</ref> 
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!Name!!Grade!!Notes
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|[[Ickworth House]]||Grade I||[[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]]<ref>{{NHLE|1000186}}</ref>
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|Sir John Hervey's Summerhouse||Grade II<ref>Sir John Hervey's Summerhouse {{NHLE|1187002}}</ref>||
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|St Mary's Church||Grade II*<ref>St Mary's Church {{NHLE|1187001}}</ref>||
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|White House||Grade II<ref>White House {{NHLE|1280824}}</ref>||
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|Mordaboys Cottages||Grade II||Thatched 17th century.<ref>Thatched terraced cottages, early C17 with early C19 alterations with converted attics: {{NHLE|1280771}}</ref>
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|Garden walling by summerhouse||Grade II<ref>Garden walling {{NHLE|1187003}}</ref>||
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|Coach House||Grade II<ref>Coach House {{NHLE|1280759}}</ref>||
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|Garden wall by church||Grade II<ref>Garden wall 100 yards south of church {{NHLE|1280763}}</ref>||
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|Ha-ha||Grade II<ref>Ha ha {{NHLE|1280794}}</ref>||
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|Stable Block||Grade II<ref>Stable Block {{NHLE|1187000}}</ref>||
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|Balustrading by entrance||Grade II<ref>Balustrading {{NHLE|1298914}}</ref>||
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The main park also has the only vineyard on National Trust land.

==History==
Ickworth is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as having 12 heads of household (9 of which villagers (villeins), 3 as smallholders) and four tied serfs (slaves), Ickworth rendered £3 and a small vill-tax to its overlords and was valued as being worth instead £4 a year.

Samuel Lewis's overview of 1848 reads:
{{quote|...a parish, in the union and hundred of [[Thingoe Hundred|Thingoe]], W. division of Suffolk, 2½ miles (S. W.) from Bury St. Edmund's; containing 62 inhabitants. This place is the property of the Marquess of Bristol, whose magnificent seat is within the parish. The mansion, consisting of a circular centre connected with wings by extensive corridors, was commenced in 1792, but the western wing is not yet completed; the park, which includes the parish, comprises about 2000 acres of rich land. The surface is varied, and the lower grounds are watered by a rivulet which expands into a broad lake, the whole forming one of the most splendid demesnes in the country. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king's books at £7. 11. 5½., and in the gift of the Marquess: the tithes have been commuted for £192. 1. 6., and the glebe comprises 5 acres. The church, the tower of which has been rebuilt by the present marquess, who has also added a south aisle, has a chancel in the early English style, and some windows in the decorated and later styles.<ref>{{brithist|51059|Ickworth}} - Samuel Lewis (editor) Institute of Historical Research ''A Topographical Dictionary of England'', 1848}}</ref>
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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 inheritance tax in 1956.

In 2005 the population of the parish was estimated at 30.

==Outside links==
{{commons|Ickworth}}
*[http://www.horringer.suffolk.gov.uk/ Horringer]

==References==
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[[Category:Towns and villages in Suffolk]]