Our Parish

 

Flempton cum Hengrave is a civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of West Suffolk in eastern England.

The Parish was founded in 1589 and incorporates the two villages of Hengrave and Flempton which are situated just under four miles to the north-west of Bury St Edmunds, on the A1101 Bury to Mildenhall road.

The usually resident population is just over 300 people, 156 in Flempton and 145 in Hengrave. The architecture of both villages is fairly mixed, ranging from the historically and architecturally important, Grade I listed Hengrave Hall, a large Tudor manor house set in extensive parkland, through 17C and 18C thatched cottages and Georgian and Victorian houses (quite a few of which are listed grade II) to a range of 20C and contemporary houses.

The village of Flempton also has a Church, St Catherine's, part of the Lark Valley Benefice.