HEMINGSTONE, or HELMINGSTONE, a parish in the hundred of BOSMERE-AND-CLAYDON, county of SUFFOLK, 4 miles (E. S. B.) from" Needham, containing 322 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk,, and diocese [of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £8. 11. 5. SirW. F. Middleton, Bart, was patron in 1824. The church is dedicated to St. Gregory.