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Great Hockham, Norfolk

Historical Description

Hockham, Great, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village stands 2 miles NE from Wretham station on the Watton and Thetford branch of the G.E.R., and 7 WSW from Attleborough. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Thetford. The parish comprises 3479 acres; population, 518. The manor, with Hockham Hall, belongs to the Partridges. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £209. The present parish formerly formed two parishes, called Great and Little Hockham, and it still is sometimes so called. The church, which stands within the park attached to the Hall, is a building of the Decorated period. There area Primitive Methodist chapel and some small charities.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyNorfolk 
Ecclesiastical parishHockham Holy Trinity 
HundredShropham 
Poor Law unionWayland 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Norfolk Record Office, have images of the Parish Registers for Norfolk online.

Findmypast, in conjunction with Norfolk Record Office have the following parish records online for Great Hockham with Little Hockham:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1563-19031563-19031564-19011564-1881


Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Great Hockham from the following:


Maps

Online maps of Great Hockham are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Norfolk newspapers online:


Visitations Heraldic

The Visitations of Norfolk 1563, 1589, and 1613 is available on the Heraldry page.

DistrictBreckland
CountyNorfolk
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtIP24
Post TownThetford

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