Drinkstone

Human settlement in England

Mid Suffolk

Suffolk

Region

East

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townBury St. EdmundsPostcode districtIP30Dialling code01449PoliceSuffolkFire Suffolk Ambulance East of England

List of places: UK; England; Suffolk

52°13′N 0°51′E / 52.21°N 00.85°E / 52.21; 00.85

Drinkstone is a small settlement and civil parish in Suffolk, England. Its name is derived from Dremic's homestead. It was located in the hundred of Thedwastre.^[2] It is near the A14 road and is 6 miles (10 km) southeast of the town of Bury St Edmunds. It is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086.

All Saints' Church dates from the 14th century. The tower was added c.1760 and the church restored in 1866–72. It is a grade II* listed building.^[3]

Drinkstone windmills are a pair of windmills in the parish consisting of a post mill and a smock mill.

Second World War

The 2024 Quartermaster Truck Company (Aviation) of the United States Army Air Force was stationed here in 1945.^[4]

Notable people

Joshua Grigby MP, settled in Drinkstone, building a mansion at Drinkstone Park in 1760.^[2]

References

^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
^ ^a ^b Goult, Wendy (1990). Survey of Suffolk Parish History West Suffolk (PDF). Ipswich: Suffolk County Council. ISBN 0860551393.
^ Historic England. "CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS (1352345)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
^ Vogels, Fred. "Thursday 18 January 1945". Back to Normandy. Retrieved 29 June 2020.