Onehouse

Onehouse is a small village in the English county of Suffolk, about 3 miles west from the centre of Stowmarket near to the Golf Club. The population of the village at the 2011 Census was 810.

Recorded in Domesday variously as "Aneus", "Anehus" "Anuhus" and "Anhus" (means a lonely cottage or house), today it is mainly modern housing for commuters with a few scattered older buildings.

Robert Drury was granted, in 1510, licence to crenellate Battlement his manors of Hansted Hall, Buknahams and Onhowshalle, Suff. Three fragments of a moat around the site of Onehouse Hall (VCH). Homestead Moat, in good condition, comprising two waterfilled arms and one dry arm. The remaining N. arm has been destroyed by farm buildings. The Hall was pulled down before 1847 (Copinger), probably in the mid C17 when the Callum's (the Drury heirs) constructed Hardwick House. They seem to have destroyed the other two properties at this time.

The House of Industry was built in 1779 to serve the entire hundred of Stow (hundred). Later it became the Union Workhouse on Union Road (extreme east). Nearby is the Paupers' Graves, now a conservation area owned and maintained by the parish council.

Until the 1950s it was a scattering of some dozen houses along Lower Road (to the south) and about 15 houses on Upper Road (to the north) with another 5 on Union Road leading to Stowmarket. By the late 1960s housing development had begun but there are still people in the village who remember streams and ditches where houses and roads now stand. With the major build of 150 houses in the 70's Upper Road became Forest Road and the Northfield Estate came into being.

With a population of 920, it has a small number of businesses including a computer company and a local hair stylists. There is also a community centre shared by neighbouring villages, Shelland and Harleston (further northwest), where children and adults alike enjoy a wide number of activities. The 3 villages also share a monthly magazine named OHSmag.

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