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Hilborough, Norfolk

Historical Description

Hilborough, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village stands on the river Wissey, 5½ miles S from Swaffham station on the G.E.R., and has a post office (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Mundford. The parish comprises 3109 acres; population, 297. Hilborough Hall is a large mansion surrounded by plantations and an extensive park. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £362. The church is a very ancient building of flint in the Florid Gothic style, has an embattled tower with crocketed pinnacles, and contains a double piscina. Remains exist of St Margaret's or the Pilgrims' chapel, which was served for a time by Dean Colet, the founder of St Paul's School in London.

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 parishHilborough All Saints 
HundredSouth Greenhoe 
Poor Law unionSwaffham 

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 Hilborough:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1561-19061561-19061563-19021561-1812


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Hilborough from the following:


Maps

Online maps of Hilborough 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 districtIP26
Post TownThetford

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