Hilborough

Infobox UK place
official_name= Hilborough
country= England
region= East of England
shire_district= Breckland
shire_county= Norfolk
civil_parish= Hilborough CP
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static_image_caption =All Saints Parish Church, Hilborough
population= 180 (parish, 2001 census)
population_density=
os_grid_reference=TF8200
latitude= 52.57184
longitude= 0.69596
post_town= THETFORD
postcode_area= IP
postcode_district= IP26
dial_code= 01760
constituency_westminster=
london_distance= convert|93.2|mi|km

Hilborough is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk ["OS Explorer Map 236 - King’s Lynn, Downham Market & Swaffham. ISBN 9780319464083.] . The village is 5.5 miles south of Swaffham, 25.4 miles west south west of Norwich and 93.2 miles north north east of London. The village straddles the A1065 between Swaffham and Brandon [County A to Z Atlas, Street & Road maps Norfolk, ISBN 978 1 84348 614 5] . The nearest railway station is at Brandon for the Breckland Line which runs between Cambridge and Norwich. The nearest airport is Norwich International Airport.

History

Hilborough has an entry in the Domesday Book of 1085 [The Domesday Book, Englands Heritage, Then and Now, Editor: Thomas Hinde,Norfolk page 190, Hilborough, ISBN 1858334403] . In the great book Hilborough is recorded by the name ‘’Hildeburhwella’’. The main landholder is William de Warenne. The main tennent was named as William. The survey also notes that there were three mills, five Beehives. The ancestors of Admiral Nelson, including the Admiral's father, the Reverend Edmund Nelson, who left for Burnham Thorpe shortly before Horatio was born; were rectors of the parish church of All Saints at Hilborough between 1734 and 1806

Notable people

The family of Admiral Nelson. Nelson’s grandfather, father, uncle-by-marriage and his brother were all rectors of All Saints parish church in the village. As a young boy Nelson stayed with his uncle and grandmother in Hilborough. After the battle of the Nile, Nelsons was given the peerage, Barron Nelson of the Nile and Hilborough [The King’s England series, NORFOLK, by Arthur Mee,Pub:Hodder and Stoughton,1972, page 122 Hilborough, ISBN 0 340 15061 0] .

The Parish Church of All Saints

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