Ickworth


Ickworth is a small civil parish, almost coextensive with the National Trust landscape estate, Ickworth Park, in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk, eastern England, south-west of Bury St Edmunds. The population of the parish was only minimal at the 2011 Census and is included in the civil parish of Lawshall.

Landmarks

Ickworth has three main clusters of the 12 listed structures in the Grade II* listed park and garden which are:
NameGradeNotes
Ickworth HouseGrade INational Trust
Sir John Hervey's SummerhouseGrade II
St Mary's ChurchGrade II*
White HouseGrade II
Mordaboys CottagesGrade IIThatched 17th century.
Garden walling by summerhouseGrade II
Coach HouseGrade II
Garden wall by churchGrade II
Ha-haGrade II
Stable BlockGrade II
Balustrading by entranceGrade II

The main park also had the only vineyard on National Trust land, until 2015 when it was grubbed up to allow the walled garden to be reinstated. An orchard of historic fruit trees is being planted as the first stage of this plan.

History

;Early History
Mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as having 12 heads of household and four tied serfs, Ickworth rendered £3 and a small vill-tax to its overlords and was valued as being worth instead £4 per year.
;Modern History
Samuel Lewis's overview of 1848 reads:
The bulk of the land formed Lord Bristol's main freehold estate which was sold for public benefit to the National Trust to pay the precursor to inheritance tax in 1956.
In 2005 its population was estimated at 30.

Demography

The 2011 census does not provide a population although Ickworth is part of the west of Census Output Area E00153548, which had 275 inhabitants of which 185 lived in a detached dwelling, 16 lived in a purpose-built block of flats or tenement, 5 in part of a converted or bed-sit and 1 in a commercial building and none lived in a shared dwelling.

Transport

To the east is the A143 which is linked to the A14 by the shortest route via a turning onto a minor straight road in Horringer, Westley Lane, immediately to the north. The A14 is a main East-West route in England which then leads west to: