Hassingham

Hassingham
Hassingham
	Hassingham St Mary in the snow
	Hassingham Location within Norfolk
OS grid reference	TG369054
Civil parish	Strumpshaw;
District	Broadland;
Shire county	Norfolk;
Region	East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Norwich
Postcode district	NR13
UK Parliament	Broadland;
	List of places UK England Norfolk 52°35′44″N 1°29′47″E / 52.595456°N 1.496466°E

Hassingham is a village in the civil parish of Strumpshaw, in the Broadland district, in the county of Norfolk, England, about ten miles east of Norwich. In 1931 the parish had a population of 114.^[1] On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Strumpshaw.^[2]

The villages name means 'Homestead/village of Hasu's people'.^[3]

Its church, St Mary, 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 Vicar who was converted by his own sermon. Haslam held the living, together with that of nearby Buckenham from 1863 to 1871, having been presented to the living by Sir Thomas Beauchamp of Langley Hall. During Haslam's ministry in Hassingham, it was said that most of the population of this small village professed evangelical conversion.^[4] Haslam was supported by his wife and the preacher Catherine Hooper who they had met in Bath.^[5]

Rail access

The nearest station is Buckenham railway station on the Wherry Line.

Notes

^ "Population statistics Hassingham CP/AP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
^ "Relationships and changes Hassingham CP/AP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
^ http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Hassingham
^ Haslam, William (1882). Yet Not I. London: Morgan & Scott. ISBN 0-548-77869-8. (Currently out of print)
^ "Hooper [married name Dening], (Emma) Geraldine Henrietta Hamilton (1841–1872), preacher". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/47053. Retrieved 27 July 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

External links

Media related to Hassingham at Wikimedia Commons

St Mary's on the European Round Tower Churches Website

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[1] "Population statistics Hassingham CP/AP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 18 December 2023.

[2] "Relationships and changes Hassingham CP/AP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 18 December 2023.

[3] ttp://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Hassingham

[4] Haslam, William (1882). Yet Not I. London: Morgan & Scott. ISBN 0-548-77869-8. (Currently out of print)

[5] "Hooper [married name Dening], (Emma) Geraldine Henrietta Hamilton (1841–1872), preacher". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/47053. Retrieved 27 July 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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