Hassingham is a village in the civil parish of Strumpshaw, in the Broadland district, in the county of Norfolk, England, about ten miles east of Norwich. In 1931 the parish had a population of 114.[1] On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Strumpshaw.[2]
| Hassingham | |
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 Hassingham St Mary in the snow | |
  Hassingham Location within Norfolk | |
| OS grid reference | TG369054 |
| Civil parish | |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Norwich |
| Postcode district | NR13 |
| UK Parliament | |
The villages name means 'Homestead/village of Hasu's people'.[3]
Its church, St Mary, is one of 124 existing round-tower churches in Norfolk. The best-known former incumbent of Hassingham is the Rev. William Haslam, a nineteenth-Century evangelical, better known as the Parson who was converted by his own sermon. Haslam held the living, together with that of nearby Buckenham from 1863 to 1871, having been presented to the living by Sir Thomas Proctor-Beauchamp of Langley Hall. During Haslam's ministry in Hassingham, it was said that most of the population of this small village professed evangelical conversion.[4] Haslam was supported by his wife and the preacher Geraldine Hooper whom they had met in Bath.[5]
Rail access
editThe nearest station is Buckenham railway station on the Wherry Line.
Notes
edit- ^ "Population statistics Hassingham CP/AP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
- ^ "Relationships and changes Hassingham CP/AP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
- ^ http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Hassingham
- ^ Haslam, William (1882). Yet Not I. London: Morgan & Scott. ISBN 0-548-77869-8. (Currently out of print)
- ^ "Hooper [married name Dening], (Emma) Geraldine Henrietta Hamilton (1841–1872), preacher". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/47053. Retrieved 27 July 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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