Wenham Magna

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Wenham Magna
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Wenham Magna
Location within Suffolk
Population150 (2005) [1]
185 (2011)
District
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Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Colchester
Postcode district CO7
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52°00′13″N1°00′51″E / 52.003714°N 1.014304°E / 52.003714; 1.014304 Coordinates: 52°00′13″N1°00′51″E / 52.003714°N 1.014304°E / 52.003714; 1.014304

Wenham Magna, also known as Great Wenham, is a village and a civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk in eastern England.

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The parish also contains the hamlets of Gipsy Row, Vauxhall and Wenham Hill. In 2005 it had a population of 150, [1] increasing to 185 at the 2011 Census. [2]

Wenham Magna is the birthplace of Matthew Hopkins, the infamous witchfinder general. [3] [4] [5] His father, James Hopkins, was a Puritan clergyman and vicar of St John's Church [5] [6] The family at one point held title "to lands and tenements in Framlingham 'at the castle'". [7] [8] James Hopkins was popular with his parishioners, one of whom in 1619 left money to purchase Bibles for his then three children James, John and Thomas. [4]

Church of St John

The parish church of St John is a Grade II* listed building. [9]

The chancel is 14th-century with a later, timber-framed, south porch. There is a 14th-century nave with north and south porches and a 15th-century west tower of flint with stone dressings. The rest of the church is plastered with only the stone windows exposed. The church has red plain tiled roofs. [9]

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Notes

  1. 1 2 Estimates of Total Population of Areas in Suffolk Suffolk County Council
  2. ↑ "Civil Pariush population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  3. ↑ Gaskill 2005: p. 9
  4. 1 2 Deacon 1976: p. 13
  5. 1 2 Sharpe, James (2004). "Hopkins, Matthew (d. 1647)". Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13751 . Retrieved 18 October 2009.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. ↑ Deacon 1976: pp. 13, 17
  7. ↑ Gaskill 2005: p. 23; Deacon 1976: p. 17; quoting James Hopkins' last will and testament
  8. ↑ Knowles, George. "Matthew Hopkins – Witch–finder General" . Retrieved 2 October 2009.
  9. 1 2 Good Stuff (22 February 1955). "Church of St John - Wenham Magna - Suffolk - England". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 14 December 2015.

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