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Information taken from HARGRAVE - A LOCAL PERSPECTIVE.
May 2004

• Up to 1066 Anglo Saxon Period Was there a Medieval Hall ?
• 1004-1066 Edward the Confessor.
  Haragrava or Hares Grove held by Aluiet who held 480 acres of land and the church under a writ from King William.
• 1017 - 1035 Bury St.Edmunds monastery founded by King Cnut.
• 1060 ? Church built - listed with Aluiet prior to conquest.
• 1066 - 1189 Norman Period
• 1066 approx King William (Conqueror) gave Manor to Monastery of St.Edmund.
• 1085 Domesday Survey. Manor held by William De Waterville. Church and 12 acres of free land listed.
• 1086 Residents recorded.     Predominantly sheep farming, some pigs /cattle.
• 1147 Gift of Manor to Monks (to Abbot Anselm) by Pope Eugenius IV. The monastery obtained the church in portions.
• 1189 - 1307 Early English Period
• 1250 Chancel added to church.
• 1254 Rectory recorded as valued at £5.6s.8d
• 1286 Abbot was Chief Lord of the Manor. Manor 140 acres - Villeins with 250 acres.
• 1302 Robert Payne held land in Hargrave under Richard,- Abbot of St.Edmunds.
• 1307 - 1377 Decorated Period
• 1377 - 1483 Perpendicular Period
• 1460 circa Church tower built
• 1480 circa Mill House built - 15th and 16th centuries.
• 1520 circa Old Grove built - early 16th century.
• 1539 Dissolution of monasteries. Hargrave passed to Sir Thomas Kitson of Hengrave Manor. Kitson died in 1539. Manor became part of Hengrave Manor.
• 1550 circa Hargrave Hall built - altered 18th and 19th centuries.
• 1580 circa Wash Cottage, Corner Cottage and Meadow Cottage built.
• 1590 circa Part of (No 2) Chapel Cottages dates from 16th century.
• 1640 circa Frogs End Farmhouse - 17th century.
• 1643 Vicar driven from village by troopers. (scandalous ministers enquiry)
• 1680 One Baronet living in Hargrave.
• 1700 circa Little Knowles Green Farmhouse and Little Knowles Green Cottage - 18th century.
• 1780 circa Grove Farm House - built late 18th / early 19th century.
• 1717 Hargrave (with Hengrave) Manor sold to Earl of Bristol (Ickworth).
• 1741 Cock’s Head existed as cottage.
• 1800 Methodists meet in barn at Hargrave Green.
• 1780 circa Windmill exists at rear of Mill House. Taken down by 1914.
• 1818 One private school with 23 scholars.
• 1823 Day school established with 24 fee paying pupils.
• 1829 Day school for 8 pupils paid for by vicar
• 1831 Glebe House recorded as unfit for occupation.
• 1840 Public elementary school built. Enlarged in 1878 and 1910. 55 pupils in 1912.
• 1859 General restorations to the church. Cock Inn became a public House - name changed later.