HEPWORTH, a village and a parish in the district of Thetford and county of Suffolk. The village stands 3½ miles SW of the Little Ouse river at the boundary with Norfolk, 5 NE of Ixworth, and 8 NW by W of Finningham r. station; and has a post office under Scole. The parish comprises 1, 677 acres. Real property, £3, 504. Pop., 594. Houses, 138. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £498.* Patron, King's College, Cambridge. The church is good, and has an embattled tower. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, a national school, and charities £66.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))