Dennington

---

title: "Dennington" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["villages-in-suffolk", "civil-parishes-in-suffolk", "hoxne-hundred"] description: "Village in Suffolk, England" topic_path: "general/villages-in-suffolk" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennington" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Village in Suffolk, England ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox UK place"]

Field	Value
country	England
coordinates
official_name	Dennington
shire_district	East Suffolk
region	East of England
area_total_km2	13.24
shire_county	Suffolk
constituency_westminster	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
population	578
population_ref	(2019)
post_town	WOODBRIDGE
postcode_district	IP13
postcode_area	IP
dial_code	01728
os_grid_reference	TM283634
static_image	Dennington - Church of St Mary.jpg
static_image_width	240px
static_image_caption	Church of St Mary, Dennington
hide_services	Yes
::

| country = England | coordinates = | official_name = Dennington | shire_district = East Suffolk | region = East of England | area_total_km2 = 13.24 | shire_county = Suffolk | constituency_westminster = Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | population = 578 | population_ref = (2019) | post_town = WOODBRIDGE | postcode_district = IP13 | postcode_area = IP | dial_code = 01728 | os_grid_reference = TM283634 | static_image = Dennington - Church of St Mary.jpg | static_image_width = 240px | static_image_caption = Church of St Mary, Dennington | hide_services = Yes

Dennington is a village and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk. It is 2 mi north of Framlingham and 15 mi north-east of Ipswich in the east of the county. It lies along the A1120 road around 8 mi west of the road's junction with the main A12 road in Yoxford.

At the 2011 census Dennington had a population of 578. The village has a primary school, village hall and pub.

There is a limited public school bus service linking Dennington to Framlingham and Ipswich. The nearest railway station is at Darsham with an hourly service to either Ipswich or Lowestoft.

Notable residents

• Sir William Phelip, 6th Baron Bardolf (?-1441), Treasurer of the Household, Lord Chamberlain and hero of the Battle Of Agincourt buried in the south chapel of St Mary's Church Dennington.
• Sir Edmund Rous (by 1521 – 1572 or later), landowner, magistrate, Member of Parliament for Great Bedwyn, Dunwich, Dover, and Vice-Treasurer of Ireland.
• William Hughes (?-1600), rector of Dennington and later Bishop of St Asaph from 1573 till his death.
• Lionel Gatford (?-1665), royalist Church of England clergyman and rector of Dennington.
• William Miller (1769 – 1844); leading English publisher.
• Benjamin Philpot (1790-1889); clergyman and Archdeacon of Man from 1832 until 1839.
• Charles Hotham (1806-1855), Lieutenant-Governor and, later, Governor of Victoria, Australia.
• George Burr (1819-1857), first-class cricketer and Anglican priest.
• Peter Hartley (1909-1994); clergyman and Archdeacon of Suffolk from 1970 to 1975.
• General Sir Alfred Dudley Ward (1905-1991), British Army officer who saw distinguished active service during the Second World War and later became Governor of Gibraltar, is buried in the churchyard of St Mary's.
• Ed Sheeran (born 1991), singer–songwriter, resides in Dennington.

References

References

1. "Dennington population 2019".
2. "Dennington Church".
3. "Dennington School".
4. "Village Website".
5. "118 Bus Timetable".
6. (December 2016). "Darsham Train Timetable".

::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::