Description
Hemingstone, a village and a parish in Suffolk, 3 miles NE from Claydon station on the G.E.E., 4 SW from Needham Market station, and 6 1/4 N by W from Ipswich. There is a post office under Needham Market; money order and telegraph office, Coddenham. The parish adjoins Shrubland Park, one of the seats of Lord de Saumerez. Acreage, 1449; population, 279. Hemingstone Hall is a brick Tudor edifice of 1625. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich in the gift of Lady de Saumerez. The church is an ancient Gothic building of stone and flint.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
