Hoveton
| Hoveton | |
| Norfolk | |
|---|---|
 Hoveton Village Sign | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TG304183 |
| Location: | 52°42’48"N, 1°24’35"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 2,127 (2021) |
| Post town: | Norwich |
| Postcode: | NR12 |
| Dialling code: | 01603 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | North Norfolk |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
North Norfolk |
Hoveton is a village Norfolk, within the Norfolk Broads, close to Hoveton Great Broad and Hoveton Little Broad.
The village is seven miles south of North Walsham and eight miles north-east of Norwich, separated from Wroxham by the River Bure.
The 2021 census recorded Hoveton's population as 2,127.
The name is of the village is from the Old English for 'Hofa's farmstead'.[1] The name is pronounced 'Hoffton'.
History
In the Domesday Book of 1086, Hoveton is listed as a settlement of 58 households, divided between the East Anglian estates of St Benet's Abbey and Roger of Poitou.[2]
Hoveton & Wroxham Railway Station opened in the village in 1874 and still operates as a stop on the 'Bittern Line', between Norwich and Sheringham.
St John's Church
Hoveton's parish church, St John the Evangelist on Horning Road dates from the twelfth century. It is a Grade II listed building.[3]
St John's features a good collection of seventeenth century stained-glass roundels as well as numerous memorials to the Blofeld family, including one to Captain John S. Blofeld who died in the service of the East India Company near Hyderabad in 1803. There is also a stained-glass window designed by Ninian Comper depicting the Risen Christ.[4]
Hoveton Hall
- Main article: Hoveton Hall
Hoveton Hall was built between 1809 and 1812 by Humphry Repton for Mrs Christabell Burroughes. Today, the house is in the care of the Buxton family.[5]
Amenities
Roys of Wroxham, dubbed "the world's largest village store", has a store in Hoveton which has stood in the village since 1899.[6]
Broadland High Ormiston Academy is located in Hoveton and is part of the Ormiston Academies Trust.[7]
In popular culture
The Norfolk landscape painter John Crome, an associate of John Sell Cotman and others of the Norwich School, made an etching of Hoveton around 1812. Today, the painting is held by the National Gallery of Canada.[8]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Hoveton) |
References
- ↑ "Key to English Place-names". http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Hoveton%20St.%20John%20and%20St.%20Peter.
- ↑ St John and St Peter Hoveton in the Domesday Book
- ↑ National Heritage List 1373437: Church of St John (Grade II listing)
- ↑ "Norfolk Churches". http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/hoveton/hoveton.htm.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1373443: Hoveton Hall (Grade II listing)
- ↑ "Roys History". https://www.roys.co.uk/history.
- ↑ Trust, Ormiston Academy. "Broadland High Ormiston Academy - Welcome" (in en). https://broadlandhighoa.co.uk/our-academy/welcome.
- ↑ Hoveton St. Peter: National Gallery of Canada