Thingoe was a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of .
One of the smaller hundreds of Suffolk, around wide and long, Thingoe contained the borough of Bury St Edmunds on its eastern border, though the town was considered a separate jurisdiction. The remainder of the hundred consisted of the land to the west of Bury St Edmunds. The River Lark rises in the hundred, flowing north to the River Little Ouse.
The name derives from the words thing, a Norse word meaning "assembly", and howe, again Norse, meaning detached hill or mound.
Parishes
Thingoe Hundred consisted of the following 18 parishes:1841 Census Map Parish Area (acres)Barrow2810Brockley1080Chevington2240Flempton720Fornham All Saints2200Great Saxham1670Hargrave1870Hawstead1980Hengrave1000Horningsheath1780Ickworth1350Lackford2470Little Saxham1300Nowton1320Rede1310Risby2620Westley680Whepstead3450
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