Description
Dennington, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The parish lies at the head of the river Aide, 2 1/2 miles N from Framlingham station on the G.E.R., and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Framlingham (R.S.O.) Acreage, 3267; population, 718. The manor belonged to the Phelips, one of whom was Lord Bardolph, and passed first to the Beaumonts, then to the Rouses, now Earls of Strad-broke. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, c£800. The church is an edifice of flint and stone in the Early English style, with lofty, squarey pinnacled tower, had anciently two chantries, contains monuments of the Rouses and the Wingfields, and is very good.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
