HENNY (GREAT), a parish in the district of Sudbury and county of Essex; on the river Stour and the Sudbury railway, at the boundary with Suffolk, 2 miles S of Sudbury r. station. Post town, Sudbury. Acres, 1, 120 Real property, £2, 562. Pop., 363. Houses, 80. The property is subdivided. The parish got its present name before the time of Edward the Confessor. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £375.* Patron, the Earl of Verulam. The church stands on an eminence, with a fine prospect; and has a tower and spire. There is a church school.

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