Hilborough

Village in Norfolk, England

Human settlement in England

Hilborough

All Saints Parish Church, Hilborough

Hilborough

Location within Norfolk

Area| 24.08 km2 (9.30 sq mi)
Population| 243 (2011 census)[1]
• Density| 10/km2 (26/sq mi)
OS grid reference| TF8200
• London| 93.2 miles (150.0 km)
Civil parish|

* Hilborough

District|

* Breckland

Shire county|

* Norfolk

Region|

* East

Country| England
Sovereign state| United Kingdom
Post town| THETFORD
Postcode district| IP26
Dialling code| 01760
Police| Norfolk
Fire| Norfolk
Ambulance| East of England

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England
Norfolk

52°34′19″N 0°41′45″E﻿ / ﻿52.57184°N 0.69596°E﻿ / 52.57184; 0.69596

Hilborough is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.[2] The village is 5.5 miles (8.9 km) south of Swaffham, 25.4 miles (40.9 km) west-southwest of Norwich and 93.2 miles (150.0 km) north-northeast of London.

The population of the parish (including Bodney) at the 2011 Census was 243. The village straddles the A1065 between Swaffham and Brandon.[3] The nearest railway station is at Brandon for the Breckland Line which runs between Cambridge and Norwich.

## History

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Hilborough has an entry in the Domesday Book of 1086.[4] In the great book Hilborough is recorded by the name Hildeburhwella. The main landholder was William de Warenne. The main tenant was named as William. The survey also notes that there were three mills, and five beehives. The ancestors of Admiral Nelson, including the Admiral's father, the Reverend Edmund Nelson, who left for Burnham Thorpe shortly before Horatio was born, were rectors of the parish church of All Saints at Hilborough between 1734 and 1806.

In 1986 a portion of the Hilborough Estate originally commissioned by Ralf Cauldwell in 1779, was bought by Hugh van Cutsem, who built a neo-Palladian mansion [5] designed by architect Francis Johnson. The efforts of the van Cutsem family and their estate workers resulted in the Hilborough Estate becoming one of the country's leading wild-bird shoots, winning awards for their conservation work.[6]

## Notable people

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The family of Admiral Nelson. Nelson's grandfather, father, uncle-by-marriage and his brother were all rectors of All Saints parish church in the village. As a young boy Nelson stayed with his uncle and grandmother in Hilborough. After the battle of the Nile, Nelson was created Baron Nelson of the Nile and Hilborough.[7]

### Other notable people

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* Sophia Cooke was born here in 1814. She was a school principal and missionary in Singapore.[8]
* Chris Mead (1 May 1940 – 16 January 2003) was a British ornithologist, author and broadcaster, and an influential member of the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO).
* Hugh van Cutsem (21 July 1941 – 2 September 2013) was an English landowner, banker, businessman and horse-breeder.
* Fiona Richmond (born 2 March 1945) is a former glamour model and actress.
* Harriet Mead (born 2 September 1969) is a contemporary wildlife artist and President of the Society of Wildlife Artists.

## References

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hilborough.

1. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
2. ^ OS Explorer Map 236 - King’s Lynn, Downham Market & Swaffham. ISBN 978-0-319-46408-3.
3. ^ County A to Z Atlas, Street & Road maps Norfolk, ISBN 978-1-84348-614-5
4. ^ The Domesday Book, England's Heritage, Then and Now, Editor: Thomas Hinde, Norfolk page 190, Hilborough, ISBN 1-85833-440-3
5. ^ Photos on Flckr
6. ^ "EDP24". Archived from the original on 26 February 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
7. ^ The King’s England series, NORFOLK, by Arthur Mee, Pub:Hodder and Stoughton,1972, page 122 Hilborough, ISBN 0-340-15061-0
8. ^ "Cooke, Sophia (1814–1895), missionary and schoolmistress". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/49145. Retrieved 15 March 2021. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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Civil parishes of Breckland

* Ashill
* Attleborough
* Banham
* Bawdeswell
* Beachamwell
* Beeston with Bittering
* Beetley
* Besthorpe
* Billingford
* Bintree
* Blo' Norton
* Bradenham
* Brettenham
* Bridgham
* Brisley
* Bylaugh
* Carbrooke
* Caston
* Cockley Cley
* Colkirk
* Cranwich
* Cranworth
* Croxton
* Didlington
* Dereham
* East Tuddenham
* Elsing
* Foulden
* Foxley
* Fransham
* Garboldisham
* Garvestone, Reymerston and Thuxton
* Gateley
* Gooderstone
* Great Cressingham
* Great Dunham
* Great Ellingham
* Gressenhall
* Griston
* Guist
* Hardingham
* Harling
* Hilborough
* Hockering
* Hockham
* Hoe and Worthing
* Holme Hale
* Horningtoft
* Ickburgh
* Kempstone
* Kenninghall
* Kilverstone
* Lexham
* Litcham
* Little Cressingham
* Little Dunham
* Little Ellingham
* Longham
* Lynford
* Lyng
* Mattishall
* Merton
* Mileham
* Mundford
* Narborough
* Narford
* Necton
* New Buckenham
* Newton by Castle Acre
* North Elmham
* North Lopham
* North Pickenham
* North Tuddenham
* Old Buckenham
* Ovington
* Oxborough
* Quidenham
* Riddlesworth
* Rocklands
* Roudham and Larling
* Rougham
* Saham Toney
* Scarning
* Scoulton
* Shipdham
* Shropham
* Snetterton
* South Acre
* South Lopham
* South Pickenham
* Sparham
* Sporle with Palgrave
* Stanfield
* Stanford
* Stow Bedon and Breckles
* Sturston
* Swaffham
* Swanton Morley
* Thetford
* Thompson
* Tittleshall
* Tottington
* Twyford
* Watton
* Weasenham All Saints
* Weasenham St Peter
* Weeting-with-Broomhill
* Wellingham
* Wendling
* Whinburgh and Westfield
* Whissonsett
* Wretham
* Yaxham

See also
Broadland
Great Yarmouth
King's Lynn and West Norfolk
North Norfolk
South Norfolk
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