Welcome to Hickling Village, Norfolk
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Welcome to Hickling Village, Norfolk |
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| Welcome
to this lovely Broadland Village, to its Churches
and Public Houses. Whether you come to Hickling by car, coach, boat, staying in one of our holiday homes or Hiring a Boat or even Relaxing Fishing, our welcome is cordial and sincere. |
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Hickling
Broad is the largest of all the Norfolk Broads, situated on the River Thurne,
and one of the homes of The Norfolk Wildlife Trust which can be found at the end of Stubb Road. |
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Hickling
is a large and scattered village with its wide open spaces, fields and
farms, one third is marsh and common land with a large expanse of water
covering over 400 acres. The houses are a mixture of old and new, with flint and stone, some thatched and colour washed. |
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We
are only a couple of miles from wide open sandy beaches at Sea Palling & Waxham where seals can often be found in Winter. |
There
are a number of Artists and
Enterprises within the village and it is a thriving community, with
a number of Clubs & Organisations
including The Women Institute, Art Group, The Tuesday Club, Craft Group,
Bowls Club and The Frog's (after school), catering for all ages The village has a fine fourteenth century church, St Mary's, a building consisting of stone and polished flints, with chancel, nave, and aisles, south porch and parvis, a square embattlement tower housing five bells. The present Methodist Church was built in 1883 on the same site where previously stood a small clay building. The Methodist Church is open all day. |
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The
Chapel Pit at the Methodist Church
is a place where clay was once dug and is now partly a car park and picnic
area; wild flowers are found there and ducks wait with eager anticipation
for any left over scraps. |
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The village sign
is an artist's impression of the old priory ruins and has four roundels
depicting the reed cutter, swallow-tail butterfly, the bittern and a
peat digger. The priory was founded in 1185 and its monks were granted
a charter by King John to hold a weekly market at Town Street for the
sale of their produce. Please take time to visit our website and find out what Hickling has to offer, you may be pleasantly surprised. Thank You ! For more information email webmaster@hickling-village-norfolk.co.uk
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