Chevington, Suffolk

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Village in Suffolk, England

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::summary Village in Suffolk, England ::

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Field	Value
country	England
official_name	Chevington
coordinates
population	630
population_ref	(2001)
602 (2011)
shire_district	West Suffolk
shire_county	Suffolk
region	East of England
constituency_westminster	West Suffolk
post_town	Bury St. Edmunds
postcode_district	IP29
postcode_area	IP
static_image	Chevington - Church of All Saints.jpg
static_image_width	240px
static_image_caption	All Saints Church Chevington
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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, 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.

Historical writings

In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described the village as:

::quote 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:

::quote Chevington, parish, W. Suffolk, 5 miles SW. of (Bury St Edmunds, 2429 acres, population 556; P.O. ::

Demography

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

Population change

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

References

[http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/38314C3E-02A0-4515-92FE-8909C6FDB3A3/0/Parishestimates01to05.pdf Estimates of Total Population of Areas in Suffolk] {{webarchive. link. (19 December 2008 Suffolk County Council)
"Civil Parish population 2011". Office for National Statistics.
(2016). "A dictionary of Suffolk place-names". EPNS & SIAH.
(1913). "The place-names of Suffolk". Cambridge Antiquarian Society.
(2014). "Suffolk place-names: their origin and meaning". Lavenham Press.
"Chevington {{!}} As described in John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887)".
"Suffolk County Council – 2001 Census Profiles".
"A Vision of Britain Through Time". University of Portsmouth & others.

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