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Ixworth is a village and civil parish in the Borough of St Edmundsbury in the English county of Suffolk. It is north-east of Bury St Edmunds and south-east of Thetford on the A143 road to Diss. The parish has a population of 2,177.〔(Office for National Statistics: ''Parish Headcounts : St Edmundsbury'' ) Retrieved 2009-09-28〕 The south end of High Street and town may also be historically listed as Ixworth St Mary. ==History== Ixworth was settled in Roman times and was the site of a 1st century AD Roman fort.〔(The Willows, Stow Road, Ixworth, Suffolk - Archaeological monitoring and recording ), Archaeological Solutions Ltd. June 2011. Retrieved 2013-01-23.〕〔(Ixworth Roman Fort ), English Heritage. Retrieved 2013-01-22.〕 The fort is believed to have been built as a response to Boudicca's revolt and appears to have been in use only until the end of the 1st century.〔 The site measures by and was surrounded by three ditches.〔 After the fort went out of use a civilian settlement was established at the site, possibly with a pottery industry.〔 Ixworth became an important junction in the Roman road system of East Anglia〔(History ). Ixworth and Ixworth Thorpe parish council. Retrieved 2013-01-23.〕〔(St Mary, Ixworth ), The Suffolk Churches Site.〕 and the Peddars Way ran from Ixworth to Holme next the Sea on the north coast of Norfolk.〔(Peddars Way ), English Heritage. Retrieved 2013-01-22.〕 The foundations of a Roman building with hypocaust were discovered in 1834 and are believed to be a villa and bath house complex.〔(Ixowth Roman villa ), English Heritage. Retrieved 2013-01-22.〕 An early pagan cemetery with Anglo-Saxon burial urns was discovered south-west of the church some time before 1849〔〔(Monument No. 385465 ), English Heritage. Retrieved 2013-01-22.〕 and a number of other post-Roman archaeological finds have been discovered in the area. In 1856 the Ixworth Cross, a gold pectoral cross covered in garnets dating from the 7th century, was discovered in what is believed to be another Anglo-Saxon cemetery.〔〔(Monument No. 385467 ), English Heritage. Retrieved 2013-01-22.〕〔(Anglo-Saxon Ixworth Cross ), Sir John Evans's collections of artefacts - British, Ashmolean Museum. Retrieved 2013-01-22.〕〔(Ixworth Cross ), Anglo-Saxon Discovery, Ashmolean Museum. Retrieved 2013-03-22.〕 The cross is decorated using cloisonné work and was donated to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford in 1909.〔 It was discovered in a rare bed burial.〔(Anglo-Saxon Christian grave find near Cambridge 'extremely rare' ), BBC Cambridgeshire news website, 2012-03-12. Retrieved 2013-01-22.〕 The first recorded name for Ixworth is from 1025 as Gyxeweorde meaning "Enclosure of a man called Gisca".〔 The settlement was recorded in the ''Domesday Book'' as "Icsewrda" or "Giswortha".〔(Ixworth ), Domesday Book online. Retrieved 2013-01-22.〕 The village, which was in the Hundred of Blackbourn, was relatively very large at this time with 51 households.〔(Ixworth ), Open Domesday. Retrieved 2013-01-22.〕 It was held by Robert Blunt or Blount in 1086, having formed part of the lands controlled by the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds in 1066.〔〔 Ixworth Priory was founded as an Augustinian priory in about 1170 and dissolved in 1537.〔〔〔(Ixworth Priory ), English Heritage. Retrieved 2013-01-22.〕 Remains of the priory include the almost complete east range whilst some of the west range can be found incorporated into a house, known as Ixworth Abbey.〔〔(Ixworth Abbey, Ixworth ), British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2013-01-23.〕 These remains are a Grade I listed building and include elements from the early 13th century.〔 Ixworth is the site the earliest rural council housing built in England.〔〔(1-2, Stow Road, Ixworth ), British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2013-01-23.〕 Four pairs of houses were built in 1893-94 for Thingoe Rural District Council, encouraged by the Ixworth Labourer’s Association.〔 These were built under the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890, the first to allow rural councils to build their own housing. The act was only adopted by eight councils.〔 The houses exist today in a largely unaltered condition. Two of them, on Stow Road, are Grade II listed buildings.〔 A Q Type bombing decoy was operated in the north-east of the parish to deflect enemy bombing from RAF Honington.〔(Airfield bombing decoy Q28B ), English Heritage. Retrieved 2013-01-22〕 A former pumping station at Bailypool Lane off Stow Lane has been given planning permission as of 2012 for conversion to a residential dwelling.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/renovatinganddiy/9851037/Properties-that-would-be-perfect-renovation-projects.html )〕 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「Ixworth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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