Hickling, Norfolk
Historical Description
Hickling, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village stands 1 mile N by E from Hickling Broad, 2½ miles WNW from the nearest part of the coast, 3 SE from Stalham, and 3 NE from Catfield stations on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway, 8 from Worsted station on the-G.E.R., and 18 NW from Norwich. It has a post and money order office under Norwich; telegraph office, Stalham. The parish comprises 3948 acres of land and 296 of water; population of the civil parish, 807; of the ecclesiastical, 811. Hickling Broad is a lake of about 700 acres, with a depth of rarely more than 4½ feet, and is navigable, for small vessels, to the Thurne and the Bure. Much of the land is marshy. A priory of Black Canons was founded here, in 1185, by Theobald de Valentia, and given at the dissolution to the-Woodhouses. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £60. The church, a fine building of flint and stone, was restored in 1875-76. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, and some small charities. In former times a market was held here, but this has become obsolete. A pleasure fair is held here on the-23 April.
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 | Hickling St. Mary | |
Hundred | Happing |
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 Hickling:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1653-1901 | 1653-1901 | 1657-1901 | 1654-1902 |
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 Hickling from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hickling (St. Mary))
Maps
Online maps of Hickling 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.