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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
HICKLING, a village and a parish in Tunstead district, Norfolk. The village stands 1 mile N by E of Hickling-Broad, 2½ WNW of the nearest part of the coast, 9¾ ESE of North Walsham r. station, and 16 N E of Norwich; and has a post office under Norwich. The parish comprises 4, 334 acres. Real property, £6, 698. Pop., 767. Houses, 181. The property is much subdivided. Hickling-Broad is a lake of about 400 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. Value, £253. Patron, the Rev. J. N. Micklethwait. The church is ancient, in tolerable condition; and has a lofty embattled tower. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, a village school with a small endowment, and poors' lands worth about £50 a year.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Hickling CP/AP Smallburgh RegD/Inc/PLU Norfolk AncC |
| Place: | Hickling |
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