Hockwold cum Wilton

Hockwold cum Wilton ("Hock/mallow wood and willow-tree farm/settlement"[2]) is 10 miles west of Thetford, Norfolk, England and is in the borough of King's Lynn and West Norfolk. It is located near several USAF airbases, notably RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall. It is situated on the boundary between the geographical areas of the Breckland – a region of sandy heathland now largely forested – and the flat, low-lying Fens, with some characteristics of both.

Hockwold cum Wilton

St Peter's Church, Hockwold
Hockwold cum Wilton
Location within Norfolk
Area31.05 km2 (11.99 sq mi)
Population1,195 (2011)[1]
• Density38/km2 (98/sq mi)
OS grid referenceTF615205
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townTHETFORD
Postcode districtIP26
Dialling code01842
PoliceNorfolk
FireNorfolk
AmbulanceEast of England
UK Parliament

The village is the location of the primary campus of Iceni Academy. Previously this was Hockwold Primary School. The village has two churches (St Peter's, now redundant and cared for by the Churches Conservation Trust, and St James') and a Methodist chapel.

History
Hockwold Treasure on display in the British Museum. Roman, 1st century AD.

An important Roman hoard of silver tableware and coins was found in Hockwold in 1962. It is now part of the Roman-British collections at the British Museum.[3] Originally, the village was located next to the river. However, after the Black Death infected the village, it was burnt down and relocated a mile to the north.

Hockwold Hall

Hockwold Hall is an Elizabethan house on the site of an earlier manor. The manor of Hockwold is mentioned in the Domesday Book. 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, Sir 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. Tyndale was tied to a stake, strangled with a rope and torched outside a castle near Brussels on Oct. 6, 1536.[4][5]

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.

Notes
  1. "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 28 August 2015.
  2. "Hockwold cum Wilton". English Place-Name Society database. the University of Nottingham. Retrieved 14 October 2010.
  3. British Museum Collection
  4. Fineberg, Gail (July 1997). "'Let There Be Light' (July 1997) - Library of Congress Information Bulletin". www.loc.gov. Library of Congress. Retrieved 10 May 2020. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley, Their Ancestors and Descendants. London. 1878.



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