by Allan Scott | 3 Oct 2019 | Church, News |
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...
by Allan Scott | 14 May 2018 | Church |
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by Allan Scott | 14 May 2018 | Church |
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by David Turner | 8 Aug 2017 | Church |
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...
by David Turner | 8 Aug 2017 | Church |
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...
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