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.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Norfolk | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Hilborough All Saints | |
Hundred | South Greenhoe | |
Poor Law union | Swaffham |
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:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1561-1906 | 1561-1906 | 1563-1902 | 1561-1812 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Hilborough from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hilborough (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Hilborough are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Norfolk newspapers online:
- Norwich Mercury
- Norfolk Chronicle
- Diss Express
- Thetford & Watton Times and People's Weekly Journal
- Norfolk News
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Norfolk 1563, 1589, and 1613 is available on the Heraldry page.