Hassingham

Hassingham is a small village in the county of Norfolk, England, about ten miles east of Norwich. The village population is included in the civil parish of Stody (This cannot be true as Stody is in North Norfolk!).

Hassingham

Hassingham St Mary in the snow
Hassingham
Location within Norfolk
OS grid referenceTG369054
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom

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.[1] Haslam was supported by his wife and the preacher Catherine Hooper who they had met in Bath.[2]

Rail access

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

Notes

  1. Haslam, William (1882). Yet Not I. London: Morgan & Scott. ISBN 0-548-77869-8. (Currently out of print)
  2. "Hooper [married name Dening], (Emma) Geraldine Henrietta Hamilton (1841–1872), preacher". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/47053. Retrieved 27 July 2020.

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