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.
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 | Hockham Holy Trinity | |
Hundred | Shropham | |
Poor Law union | Wayland |
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:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1563-1903 | 1563-1903 | 1564-1901 | 1564-1881 |
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:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hockham (Holy Trinity))
Maps
Online maps of Great Hockham 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.