| Freckenham | |
|---|---|
 St Andrew's Church, Freckenham | |
  Freckenham Location within Suffolk | |
| Population | 344 (2011)[1] |
| OS grid reference | TL664720 |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Bury St Edmunds |
| Postcode district | IP28 |
| Dialling code | 01638 |
| UK Parliament | |
Freckenham is a small rural village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in East Anglia, in the country of England.
Geographically, it is relatively flat and has the River Kennet, a tributary of the River Lark locally known as the Lee Brook, cutting through the centre of the village. The parish's boundary forms, on its west and south sides, the boundary between Cambridgeshire and Suffolk.
The village's name is listed as "Frekeham" in 895, and appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Frakenaham". The name is believed to mean "homestead of a man called Freca", or derive from frecena a Saxon word meaning "the home of strong men or warriors".[2][3][4]
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
- ^ A. D. Mills (2003). A Dictionary of British Place-Names. Oxford University Press.
- ^ "History of Freckenham". Freckenham Parish Council. Archived from the original on 27 October 2010. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
- ^ Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William) (1913). The place-names of Suffolk. University of California Libraries. Cambridge : Printed for the Cambridge Antiquarian Society; sold by Deighton, Bell & Co. [etc.,etc.]