Chevington, Suffolk
| Chevington | |
| Suffolk | |
|---|---|
 All Saints Church Chevington | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TL786597 |
| Location: | 52°12’22"N, 0°36’50"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 602 (2011) |
| Post town: | Bury St. Edmunds |
| Postcode: | IP29 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | West Suffolk |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
West Suffolk |
Chevington is a village in Suffolk, six miles south-west of Bury St Edmunds, with a population of 602 at the 2011 census. The wider parish also contains hamlets: Broad Green and Tan Office Green.
The name Chevington is from Old English Ceofan tun, meaning Ceofa's farm.
Name
The village appeared in Domesday Book as Ceuentuna; 200 years later it was typically Chevintun or Cheveton and from 1535 the modern spelling Chevington is recorded. The etymology proves that the -ing- syllable is not original, but is by analogy with similar names.[1][2][3]
Historical writings
In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described the village as:
CHEVINGTON, a parish in Thingoe district, Suffolk; 2¾ miles S of Saxham r. station, and 5 SW by W of Bury St. Edmunds. It has a post office under Bury St. Edmunds. Acres, 2,429. Real property, £3,889. Population, 621. Houses, 126. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £396. Patron, the Rev. J. White. The church is ancient. There is an endowed school, and charities £22.
In 1887, John Bartholomew also wrote an entry on Chevington in the Gazetteer of the British Isles with a much shorter description:
Chevington, parish, W. Suffolk, 5 miles SW. of Bury St Edmunds, 2429 acres, population 556; P.O.[4]
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References
- ↑ Briggs, Keith (2016). A dictionary of Suffolk place-names. Nottingham: EPNS & SIAH. p. 32.
- ↑ Skeat, Walter (1913). The place-names of Suffolk. Cambridge: Cambridge Antiquarian Society. p. 96.
- ↑ Mills, Anthony David: 'A Dictionary of British Place-Names' (Oxford University Press, 2003) ISBN 978-0-19-852758-9
- ↑ "Chevington | As described in John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887)". https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/2100890.
- Cooper, Frank (1984). Chevington: A Social Chronicle of a Suffolk Village. Chichester: Phillimore & Co.. ISBN 978-0-850-33558-3.
- Christopher Dyer (2007). "A suffolk farmer in the fifteenth century". Agricultural History Review 55 (1): 1–22. Traces the life of Chevington farmer Robert Parman (c.1405 – 1475), and so contains historical details of Chevington and its people during his lifetime.
- 'WHITE'S 1844 SUFFOLK History, Gazetteer, & Directory of Suffolk' by William White