HONINGTON, a parish in the hundred of BLACKBOURN,
county of SUFFOLK, 2 miles (N. N. W.) from
Ixworth, containing 250 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Sudbury,
and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at
£7. 13. 4., arid in the patronage of the Crown: The
church is dedicated to All Saints. Robert Bloomfield,
the poet, author of the " Farmer's Boy," &c., was born
here in 1788.