Assington is a village in Suffolk, England, 4 miles (6.4 km) south-east of Sudbury.

The Domesday Book of 1086 records the village as being made up of 78 households including 5 villagers, 6 freemen, 55 smallholders, and 12 slaves along with 23 cattle, 60 pigs, 90 sheep, 12 goats, 6 beehives, 30 pigs, 1 mill, and 16 acres of meadow.

At the time the Lord and tenant in chief of the village was Ranulf Peverel[5] 78 households implies a population similar to that of today [5] A church on the site of St Edmunds was recorded in the Domesday Book, with the earliest recorded mention of a vicar being in 1349 and that of a dedication to St Edmund in 1459.

[6] The parish church is dedicated to St Edmund the Martyr and built of flint and dressed stone.

[11] The hall was pulled down in 1957 after a fire,[12] but the stables and coach house remain and are grade II listed.