Hitcham’s Lottery Success!

Hitcham’s Lottery Success!

by | 3 Oct 2019 | Church, News | 0 comments

Thanks to funding received from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Reverend Professor John Stevens Henslow’s work will finally be recorded in a permanent exhibition in Hitcham church where he was once rector. Henslow is of regional, national and international...

About the Church

by | 8 Aug 2017 | Church | 2 comments

HITCHAM is one of the largest parishes in south Suffolk.  Now 3,872 acres, before 1934 it was 4,270 acres (including a detached part of Brettenham that was re-united with Hitcham in 1885).  However it is likely that Anglo-Saxon Hitcham was even larger as topographical...

Professor John Stevens Henslow

by | 8 Aug 2017 | Church | 2 comments

John Stevens Henslow was born in Maidstone, Kent, in 1796, the eldest of eleven children.  His father was a solicitor and his grandfather, Sir John Henslow, had been Master of Chatham Dockyard and Chief Surveyor of the Royal Navy.  His was a family of amateur...