Place:Whepstead, Suffolk, England

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NameWhepstead
Alt namesMelon Greensource: hamlet in parish
Mickley Greensource: hamlet in parish
Stone Cross Greensource: hamlet in parish
TypeCivil parish
Coordinates52.19°N 0.683°E
Located inSuffolk, England
Also located inWest Suffolk, England     (1888 - 1974)
See alsoThingoe Hundred, Suffolk, Englandhundred in which it was located
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Whepstead is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk District of Suffolk in eastern England, located south of Bury St. Edmunds. Once the property of Bury Abbey, it became a possession of the Drury family at the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the late 1530s. Whepstead Church is dedicated to St Petronilla, the only such dedication in England.

In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson described Whepstead in his Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales like this:

"WHEPSTEAD, a parish, with a village, in Thingoe district, Suffolk; 4½ miles SSW of Bury-St. Edmunds [railway] station. It has a post-office under Bury-St. Edmunds. Acres, 2,670. Real property, £4,281. Population, 677. Houses, 140. The property is much subdivided. Plumpton House is the seat of W. R. Bevan, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £600. Patron, A. R. Steele, Esq. The church is good; and there is an endowed school with £35 a year, and charities £50".

Hamlets in the parish of Whepstead include Melon Green, Mickley Green and Stone Cross Green (all redirect here).

There is one pub in Whepstead called The White Horse, which is a free house built in the 17th century.

Wikipedia reports that the population of Whepstead parish was 427 in 2001; the figure for 2011 is not given.

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