Hassingham
| Hassingham | |
| Norfolk | |
|---|---|
 St. Mary's Church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TG369054 |
| Location: | 52°35’44"N, 1°29’47"E |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Norwich |
| Postcode: | NR13 |
| Dialling code: | 01603 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Broadland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Broadland and Fakenham |
Hassingham is a tiny village in Norfolk. It is in the south-east of the county, amongst the Norfolk Broads. It stands to the north of the drained meadows by the River Yare, between Buckenham upstream to the west and Cantley downstream to the south-east.
The village is located three and a half miles south-west of Acle and nine miles east of Norwich.
History
Hassingham's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for the homestead of Hasu's people.[1]
In the Domesday Book, Hassingham is listed as a settlement of 11 households Blofield Hundred. In 1086, the village was part of the East Anglian estates of The King.[2]
Parish church
Hassingham's church, St Mary, on Church Road, dates from the twelfth century. It is a Grade II listed building.[3]
St Mary was restored in the Victorian era and again after a fire in 1971 but still retains mediæval and seventeenth century stained-glass windows.[4]
This 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. During Haslam's ministry in Hassingham, it was said that most of the population of this small village professed evangelical conversion.[5] Haslam was supported by his wife and the preacher Geraldine Hooper, whom they had met in Bath.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Hassingham) |
- St Mary's: European Round Tower Churches
References
- ↑ Place-Names
- ↑ Hassingham in the Domesday Book
- ↑ National Heritage List 1303861: Church of St Mary (Grade II listing)
- ↑ "Norfolk Churches". http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hassingham/hassingham.htm.
- ↑ Haslam, William (1882). Yet Not I. London: Morgan & Scott. ISBN 0-548-77869-8. https://archive.org/details/moreyearsofmymin00hasluoft. (Currently out of print)