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Hockwold cum Wilton
Village in Norfolk, England From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hockwold cum Wilton is a civil parish and village in the English county of Norfolk.
Hockwold is located 10 miles (16 km) west of Thetford and 34 miles (55 km) south-west of Norwich.
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Etymology
Hockwold cum Wilton's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for the hock forest and willow-tree farmstead.[1]
History
Several Roman buildings have been found in Hockwold cum Wilton including a former temple in Sawbench Woods.[2] In 1962, a hoard of silver cups were found in the parish which are currently held by the British Museum.[3] Among local discoveries is a cultic site active from the mid-2nd to late 4th century AD. It consists of a circular building with a chalk floor, plastered and painted walls, and a thatched roof. It likely functioned as a favissa, where votive objects, including coins and regalia such as crowns and diadems, were deposited.[4]
In the Domesday Book of 1086, Hockwold cum Wilton is recorded as a settlement of 12 households in the hundred of Grimshoe. In 1086, the village was part of the East Anglian estates of William de Warenne.[5]
The only pilgrim badge of Saint Andrew to be found outside of Scotland and London was found in the parish in the 1980s.[6]
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Geography
According to the 2021 census, Hockwold cum Wilton has a population of 1,304 people which shows an increase from the 1,195 people listed in the 2011 census.[7]
St. James' Church
Hockwold cum Wilton's parish church is dedicated to Saint James the Great and dates from the Fourteenth Century. St. James' is located on Church Lane and has been Grade I listed since 1959.[8][9] The church holds intermittent Sunday service.[10]
St. Peter's Church
There is another derelict church dedicated to Saint Peter in Hockwold cum Wilton which dates from the Fourteenth Century. St. Peter's is located on Station Road and has been Grade I listed since 1959.[11] The church is no longer open for Sunday service and is in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.[12]
The church features several stained-glass windows designed by Clayton and Bell depicting the Crucifixion, the Resurrection and the Ascension.[13]
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Hockwold Hall
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Hockwold Hall is an Elizabethan house on the site of an earlier manor. The manor of Hockwold is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. Hockwold Hall, with origins in the late 15th century, is a Tudor manor house with a substantial extension built by a Royal Prince at the end of the 19th century.
Sir John Tyndale (Tyndall), Baron Tyndale of Thetford, Governor of The Tower of London, KB (1475–1539) was born at Hockwold Cum Wilton Manor as was his son Sir Thomas Tyndale (Tyndall) 1505–1583, who also died there. Sir John's brother, William Tyndale (Tyndall) (1484–1536), a 16th-century scholar and linguist died a martyr for translating the scriptures from Greek and Hebrew into vernacular English so that commoners could read the Bible for themselves, rather than having to depend on the church hierarchy to interpret the official Latin Vulgate. The Tyndale Bible was the basis for the King James Bible and it survived book burners, but he did not survive. Tyndale was tied to a stake, strangled with a rope and torched outside a castle near Brussels on October 6, 1536.[14][15]
The royalist Arthur Heveningham lived at the Hall until 1657. His brother, William Heveningham, was one of the regicides of Charles I, and his daughter Abigail married John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol. Sir Cyril Wyche, a founder member of the Royal Society, took over the estate in 1688 and lived there until 1707. Prince Victor Duleep Singh, the eldest son of the last Maharaja of Lahore, a godson of Queen Victoria, came to live at Hockwold Hall in 1895.
The gates to the hall are reputedly haunted by a white lady who supposedly unnerves drivers.[16]
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Governance
Hockwold cum Wilton is part of the electoral ward of Feltwell for local elections and is part of the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.
The village's national constituency is South West Norfolk which has been represented by Labour's Terry Jermy MP since 2024.
War Memorial
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Hockwold cum Wilton War Memorial is an obelisk memorial in St. James' Churchyard. The Second World War part of the memorial was unveiled in 1947 by Brig-Gen. Henri de Lotbiniere and the Reverend N.R.M. Hawthorn.[17] The memorial lists the following names for the First World War:[18]
The following names were added after the Second World War:
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