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Honington is a small village in the county of Suffolk in England, located near the county's border with Norfolk. The village lies on the River Blackbourn, approximately 8 miles from Bury St Edmunds and 6 miles from Thetford, Norfolk. Much of the surrounding farm land falls within the estate of the Duke of Grafton. The village is probably best known for its RAF base, RAF Honington, and for being the birthplace of poet Robert Bloomfield. It has a public house, the ''Fox Inn''. Honington is bordered to the north-east by Sapiston, to the north-west by Fakenham Magna, to the north by Euston, to the east by Bardwell, to the south-west by Troston, and to the south by Ixworth Thorpe. It is also near two Joint RAF/USAF Bases, RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall ==History== The existence of the village is recorded in the Domesday Book. Before the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII in the late 1530s, the land in the village was held by the abbot of the great monastery at Bury St Edmunds. The local lords of the manor were the dukes of Grafton in neighbouring Euston. The first Duke of Grafton, previously Earl of Euston, was Henry Fitzroy, the natural son of King Charles II by Countess of Castlemain. The third Duke of Grafton was briefly prime minister. The current Duke of Grafton is the 12th. The village's most famous past resident was the pastoral poet Robert Bloomfield, born in Honington in 1766. His first and most famous poem is ''The Farmers Boy''.〔 A biography of Bloomfield co-written by the then headmaster of the village school, William Wickett, was published in 1969. Bloomfield is buried at Shefford in Bedfordshire, where he spent the latter part of his life. RAF Honington opened on May 3, 1937, as one of six operational airfields within No 3 Group Bomber Command. "From Barren Rocks to Living Stones" records that Honington was able to play a part in accommodating British evacuees from the terrorism in Aden in 1967. This was a major British operation at the time. In 1994 flying operations stopped and the Honington Air Traffic Control Zone ceased to exist in preparation for Honington becoming home of the RAF Regiment. The base now sees only very occasional air traffic. On one occasion in recent years the runway and ground facilities have been "borrowed" by the USAF for a short period while work was carried out on the runway at the nearby RAF Lakenheath. The parishes of Sapiston and Honington were combined in 1972. Although the Grade I listed St Andrew's Church, Sapiston, has been declared redundant, occasional services are still held there. All Saints' Church at Honington is one of eleven congregations in the Ixworth Deanery of the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich that make up the Blackbourne Team. The church itself is a Grade I listed building.〔All Saints' Church (Retrieved 7 September 2015. )〕 A Church of England primary school founded in the 19th century operates in the village.〔Grade II listed. (Retrieved 7 September 2015. )〕 (Village Life & Folk Remembered ), a book written in 2005 by Syd Thurlow, details many local stories about Honington and Sapiston. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Honington, Suffolk」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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