What is "heveningham"

Heveningham is a village and civil parish in the Suffolk Coastal district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located four miles south-west of Halesworth, in 2005 it had a population of 120. It is where Bruce Reynolds, latterly the brains behind the Great Train Robbery, was evacuated to aged eight, in 1939, during the Second World War.

In 1870-1872, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Heveningham like this:

HAVENINGHAM, or HEVENINGHAM, a village and parish in Blything district, Suffolk. Haveningham Hall, belongs to Lord Huntingfield. Haveningham Hall was built, in 1777.

Heveningham was the name of a prominent Norfolk family.

• Mary Heveningham, mistress of Henry VIII during his marriage to her cousin, Anne Boleyn.
• William Heveningham (1604-1678), Roundhead politician.