Located around 10 km south-west of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 630,[1] reducing to 602 at the 2011 Census.

It appeared in Domesday Book as Ceuentuna; 200 years later it was typically Chevintun or Cheveton and from 1535 the modern spelling Chevington is recorded.

[3][4][5] Chevington was a part of the Saxon estate of Britulf, but was given over to the Abbey of St Edmund after the Norman Conquest.

The Abbey in Bury had been founded by the Benedictines in 1020 to shelter the remains of St Edmund and became one of the largest in England.

Adam & Robert de Seburgh were free tenants, with the Pamans owning land with virtual right of occupation.

ALLEN – Holly Bush Green, gent, BRIDGE – carpenter, EDWARD – wheelwright, FENTON – bricklayer & builder, MAYHEW – shopkeeper, PARKER – shoe-maker & schoolmaster, ROLFE – gentleman, SIMKIN James – beer-house keeper, SIMKIN John – thatcher, WHITE rev John – rectory, WHITE Misses Elis & Frances, WITHAM J – shopkeeper, WRIGHT Christopher – butcher, Farmers in the village in 1844, ADAMS – Hill House,

BREWSTER Sam – Coolege Farm, FINCH J – Holly Bush Green, GOSSICK J – Horse Pool, JENNISON W – Chevington Lodge, KEMP J – Chevington Hall, KEMP J – malster, ROLFE W – corn miller, SIMKIN Robert J – Garrod's Farm & vet, SIMKIN Robert – Hole, TRUGGITT – Broad Green, WEBB John – Moat Farm, In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described the village as: CHEVINGTON, a parish in Thingoe district, Suffolk; 2¾ miles S of Saxham r. station, and 5 SW by W of Bury St. Edmunds.

Batleys House in Depden Lane, later called Hole Farm with a 17th-century axial red brick chimney, it was one owned by Dr John Battely, Archdeacon of Canterbury, occupied by the Simkens in the 19th century.

The earthworks and a fosse surrounding the hall are thought to have been constructed for defence and appear to predate the Romans.

After the Dissolution, it became a manor house for Thomas Kytson of Hengrave and then later the Gages, who became the largest land-owners in the district.

The current farmhouse, is mid 16th century with alterations, timber-framed, but encased in painted brick at front and sides.

It has two storeys, hipped plain-tiled roof with axial chimneys of red brick, 18th-century mullioned and transomed windows of 4 & 6 lights.

Hollybush Stud, site of Seburgh's where a Robert Gooday once lived in the early 17th century.

Thatched Cottage on Church Rd, probably from the 18th century, was inhabited for a lengthy period by the Arbon family.

Still thatched, the main timber-framed building has two stories with a distinguished newel staircase leading from the ground floor.