Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HOCKWOLD

HOCKWOLD, a village and a parish in Thetford district, Norfolk. The village stands near the Little Ouse river and the boundary with Suffolk, 1 mile N of Lakenheath r. station, and 4 W by N of Brandon; and has an ancient stone cross 15 feet high, a post office under Brandon, and a fair on the first Wednesday after 11 Oct. The parish includes also the village and quondam parish of Wilton; bears the name of Hockwold-cum-Wilton; and has sometimes, but erroneously, been returned as including the extra-parochial tract of Redmere. Acres, 7, 478. Real property, £6, 667. Pop. in 1851, 1, 067; in 1861, 803. Houses, 203. The decrease of pop. was caused by emigration. The property is much subdivided. Great part of the surface is fen land. A new road was formed through the fens, and a suspension bridge constructed across the Little Ouse, in 1829. Hockwold Hall is a chief residence. The living is a rectory and a vicarage, -Hockwold a rectory, Wilton a vicarage, -in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £766.* Patron, Caius College, Cambridge. Hockwold church is a rude structure, with a tower; and contains stone stalls and a piscina. Wilton church is an edifice of stone and flint, with tower and spire; both churches have been thoroughly restored. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, a national school, and charities £45.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Hockwold CP/AP       Hockwold Cum Wilton CP       Thetford RegD/PLU       Norfolk AncC
Place names: HOCKWOLD     |     HOCKWOLD CUM WILTON
Place: Hockwold

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