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Hingham
Hingham is a market town in the heart of rural Norfolk. Grand architecture surrounds the market place and village green. Hingham is 17 miles (27 km) from Norwich, Norfolk’s county town. While many Hingham people now work in Norwich, commuting by car or bus, the town has maintained a strong base, providing work in a wide range of commercial businesses in its industrial estate on Ironside Way.The many and varied local shops have the special character of a small market town but are up-to-date in what they provide. Despite the influence and attractions of neighbouring Norwich, an active and independent town life continues to thrive and grow in Hingham.
Hingham History
The town was the property of King Athelstan, in 925, and of William the Conqueror in 1066 and 1086 as a well populated parish in the hundred of Forehoe, and retained many privileges coming from its royal ownership, including “the grandeur of…St.Andrews,” a parish church founded in the 1300s. In years that followed, the town was a clear royal domain, for William the Conqueror and many others.
In 1414 the town was exempted from an English toll and in 1610, the city was granted a royal charter by Queen Anne. Over the years, from 1272 to the town’s church, not the same as that in Norwich, has had 32 rectors.
By the 1600s, the town of Hingham was still agricultural. John Speed’s maps of Kingdom of England during the Tudor period in 1610 and 1611, showed that the town was near Wymondham. This town was, at the time situated in the countryside with diverse terrain, profuse windmills, well-watered soil, a large degree of inland water traffic, few urban centers apart from Norwich, where a thriving cloth industry boomed. With Speed’s drawing of a castle at the location of Hingham, the town must have been of some stature.
