Hardwick is a former civil parish, now in the parish of Bury St Edmunds, in the West Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England.

[4] In 1937 the ecclesiastical parish was abolished and merged with Norton.

[5] In 1974 it became part of the St Edmundsbury district in the non-metropolitan county of Suffolk.

On 1 April 1988 the civil parish was abolished[6] and the area became unparished.

In 2003 the area of the former parish became part of Bury St Edmunds civil parish, in 2019 St Edmundsbury district was abolished and the area of the former parish became part of West Suffolk district.