Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HINGHAM

HINGHAM, a small town and a parish in Forehoe district, Norfolk. The town stands on a rising ground, near a lake which emits one of the headstreams of the river Yare, 3¼ miles WSW of Kimberley r. station, and 6 W by N of Wymondham; was largely burnt in the middle of last century, and is now chiefly modern; had formerly a weekly market; has still fairs on 7 March, Whit-Tuesday, and 2 Oct.; has also a post office‡ under Attleborough; and is a seat of petty sessions. The parish comprises 3, 649 acres. Real property, £11, 149. Pop., 1, 605. Houses, 373. The property is much subdivided. The manor belonged to the Earls of Pembroke, and passed to the Morleys and the Wodehouses. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £1, 200. * Patron, Lord Wodehouse. The church was built by Remigius de Hethersete, the rector, in 1316; is a spacious structure with a lofty tower; had formerly several chapels; contains, in a still extant side chapel, a noble monument to Thomas Lord Morley, who died in 1435; has an E window of stained glass, 36 feet by 18, given in 1813 by Lord Wodehouse; and was recently in disrepair. There are chapels for Independents and Primitive Methodists. A free grammar school, founded in 1727 by William Parlett, has £165 a year from endowment; and other charities have £71. Sir Ralph de Hingham, a judge in the time of Edward I., was a native.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a small town and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Hingham AP/CP       Forehoe RegD/PLU/Inc       Norfolk AncC
Place: Hingham

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