page_title: Denston
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Denston / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Great Britain 20th Century map of Denston.
context_page_description: Denston is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around eight miles south-west of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 120. The entire village is designated as a conservation area. There is an Anglican church whose dedication is to St Nicholas.
  Denston is located just south of Wickhambrook.
  Denston has been described as
  "DENARDISTON, or Denston, a parish in Risbridge district, Suffolk; on an affluent of the river Stour, 3¾ miles ENE of Haverhill r. station. Post town, Keddington, under Newmarket"
  -John Marius Wilson, 1870–72
context_section_description: A remote village in Suffolk, Denston is home to Suffolk's finest small church. Built by the Denston family in the 1460s, it has been subtly altered over time to serve a small group of priests, "about 50 years before the Reformation would sweep them away".
  All of the church apart from the older tower was created by the family, however, those priests were a community all too poor to carry out any restoration on the building. It is "because of this it has a higher degree of surviving medieval liturgical integrity than virtually any other Suffolk church".
caption: Great Britain 20th-century map of Denston.
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