Chevington, Suffolk

Chevington
All Saints Church Chevington
Chevington
Location within Suffolk
Population630 (2001)[1]
602 (2011)[2]
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBury St. Edmunds
Postcode districtIP29
PoliceSuffolk
FireSuffolk
AmbulanceEast of England
UK Parliament

Chevington is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in East Anglia, England. Located around 10 km south-west of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 630,[1] reducing to 602 at the 2011 Census. The parish also contains the hamlets of Broad Green and Tan Office Green.

Name

The name Chevington is from Old English Ceofan-tūn, meaning the farm of a man named Ceofa (genitive case Ceofan). It 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.[3][4][5]

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.[6]

Demography

In the 2001 census, Chevington had a population of 603 with 248 households.[7]

Population change

Population growth in Chevington from 1801 to 1891
Year 1801 1811 1821 1831 1841 1851 1881 1891
Population 445 490 590 573 624 600 556 545
Source: A Vision of Britain Through Time[8]
Population growth in Chevington from 1901 to 2001
Year 1901 1911 1921 1931 1951 1961 2001
Population 457 471 466 417 358 373 603
Source: A Vision of Britain Through Time[8]

Location grid

References

  1. ^ a b Estimates of Total Population of Areas in Suffolk Archived 19 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine Suffolk County Council
  2. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
  3. ^ Briggs, Keith (2016). A dictionary of Suffolk place-names. Nottingham: EPNS & SIAH. p. 32.
  4. ^ Skeat, Walter (1913). The place-names of Suffolk. Cambridge: Cambridge Antiquarian Society. p. 96.
  5. ^ Mills, A. D. (2014). Suffolk place-names: their origin and meaning. Lavenham: Lavenham Press. p. 39.
  6. ^ "Chevington | As described in John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887)". www.visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
  7. ^ "Suffolk County Council – 2001 Census Profiles" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
  8. ^ a b "A Vision of Britain Through Time". University of Portsmouth & others. Retrieved 22 February 2011.

Further reading

  • Cooper, Frank (1984). Chevington: A Social Chronicle of a Suffolk Village. Chichester: Phillimore & Co. ISBN 978-0-850-33558-3.
  • Dyer, Christopher (2007). "A suffolk farmer in the fifteenth century". Agricultural History Review. 55 (1): 1–22. JSTOR 40276126. 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

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