Hardley, Norfolk
| Hardley | |
| Norfolk | |
|---|---|
 St Margaret's Church, Hardley | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TG385007 |
| Location: | 52°33’9"N, 1°31’3"E |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Norwich |
| Postcode: | NR14 |
| Dialling code: | 01508 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Norfolk |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
South Norfolk |
Hardley is a small village in the south-east of Norfolk, in the Norfolk Broads and between the Rivers Yare and Chet, just west of where they meet. Hardley consists of a hamlet named Hardley Street, and a small cluster of cottages about the parish church to the south. strung along the lane over the marshes: Langley Green and Langley Street. Its shares a civil parish with Langley Green and Langley Street just to the west and north-west.
The village is found two miles north of Loddon and nine miles south-west of Norwich. Its name is from the Old English for hard-wood clearing.[1]
History
In the Domesday Book of 1086, Hardley is listed as a settlement of 9 households and part of the estates of St Benet's Abbey.[2]
St. Margaret's Church
Hardley's church, St Margaret's, on Lower Hardley Road, dates from the fourteenth century, and is one of Norfolk's 124 remaining round-tower churches. The church is a Grade I listed building.[3]
St. Margaret's was sympathetically restored in the Victorian era and still retains many of its mediæval features.[4]
Outside links
- Hardley St Margaret's: European Round Tower Churches
References
- ↑ "Key to English Place-names". http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Hardley.
- ↑ Hardley, Norfolk in the Domesday Book
- ↑ National Heritage List 1050636: Church of St Margaret Hardley (Grade I listing)
- ↑ "Norfolk Churches". http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hardley/hardley.htm.