| Country: | England |
| Official Name: | Ickworth |
| Static Image Name: | Ickworth House and Church - geograph.org.uk - 832141.jpg |
| Static Image Caption: | Ickworth House and St Mary's Church |
| Coordinates: | 52.217°N 0.671°W |
| Population: | 30 |
| Population Ref: | [1] |
| Shire District: | West Suffolk |
| Shire County: | Suffolk |
| Region: | East of England |
| Post Town: | Bury St Edmunds |
| Postcode Area: | IP |
| Postcode District: | IP29 |
| Os Grid Reference: | TL8161 |
Ickworth is a small civil parish, almost coextensive with the estate of the National Trust's Ickworth House, in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk, eastern England, south-west of Bury St Edmunds.[2] The population of the parish was only minimal at the 2011 Census and is included in the civil parish of Lawshall.
Ickworth has three main clusters of the 12 listed structures in the Grade II* listed park and garden which are:[3]
| Name | Grade | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ickworth House | Grade I | National Trust | |
| Sir John Hervey's Summerhouse | Grade II[4] | ||
| St Mary's Church | Grade II*[5] | ||
| White House | Grade II[6] | ||
| Mordaboys Cottages | Grade II | Thatched 17th century.[7] | |
| Garden walling by summerhouse | Grade II[8] | ||
| Coach House | Grade II[9] | ||
| Garden wall by church | Grade II[10] | ||
| Ha-ha | Grade II[11] | ||
| Stable Block | Grade II[12] | ||
| Balustrading by entrance | Grade II[13] |
The main park also had the only vineyard on National Trust land, until 2015 when it was grubbed up to allow the walled garden to be reinstated. An orchard of historic fruit trees was planted as the first stage of this plan.
Mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as having 12 heads of household (nine of which villagers (villeins), three as smallholders) and four tied serfs (slaves), Ickworth rendered £3 and a small vill-tax to its overlords and was valued as being worth £4 per year.[14]
Samuel Lewis's overview of 1848 reads:The bulk of the land formed Lord Bristol's main freehold estate which was sold for public benefit to the National Trust to pay the precursor to inheritance tax in 1956.
In 2005 its population was estimated at 30.[1]
The 2011 census does not provide a population (see above) although Ickworth is part of the west of Census Output Area E00153548, which had 275 inhabitants of which 185 lived in a detached dwelling, 16 lived in a purpose-built block of flats or tenement, five in part of a converted or bed-sit and one in a commercial building.[15]
To the east is the A143 which is linked to the A14 by the shortest route via a turning onto a minor straight road in Horringer, Westley Lane, immediately to the north. The A14 is a main East-West route in England which then leads west to: