Henstead

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Coordinates: 52°24′54″N 1°40′01″E / 52.415°N 1.667°E / 52.415; 1.667
Henstead

Henstead, Church of St Mary
Henstead

 Henstead shown within Suffolk
OS grid reference TM495860
District Waveney
Shire county Suffolk
Region East
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Beccles
Postcode district NR34
Dialling code 01502
EU Parliament East of England
UK Parliament Waveney
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Henstead is near Kessingland and the A12 in Suffolk in England. It has a church called Church of St Mary which is a Grade I listed building.[1]

In 1771 the landscape artist, Thomas Hearne spent six weeks with the young George Beaumont in Henstead at the home of the latters tutor at Eton, Revd Charles Davy. For Beaumont it proved the inspiration for his future profession as a landscape painter himself.[2]

References

  1. Details from listed building database (282054) . Images of England. English Heritage.
  2. Felicity Owen ‘Beaumont, Sir George Howland, seventh baronet (1753–1827)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
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