Honingham is a village and

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in the

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. Honingham is located east of

Dereham Dereham (), also known historically as East Dereham, is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Breckland District of the England, English county of Norfolk. It is situated on the A47 road, about west of the city of Norwich ...

and west of

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along the A47 and the River Tud.

History

A hoard of

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silver coins were found in the parish in 1954 which were likely buried during the

Boudican Revolt The Boudican revolt was an armed uprising by native Celtic Britons against the Roman Empire during the Roman conquest of Britain. It took place circa AD 60–61 in the Roman province of Britain, and it was led by Boudica, the Queen of the Ice ...

of 60 AD. Honingham's name is of

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origin and derives from the

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for the homestead of ''Huna's'' people. In the

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, Honingham is listed as a settlement of 22 households

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of Forehoe. In 1086, the village was part of the East Anglian estates of Alan, Count of Brittany. During the

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, parts of the parish became RAF Attlebridge which was used by No. 2 Group RAF, the 319th Bombardment Group and the 466th Bombardment Group.

Geography

According to the 2021 census, Honingham has a population of 374 people which shows an increase from the 358 people recorded in the 2011 census. The River Tud passes through the village as does the A47, between

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and

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St. Andrew's Church

Honingham's parish church is dedicated to

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and dates from the Fourteenth Century. St. Andrew's is located on Dereham Road and has been Grade II listed since 1961. The church is no longer open for Sunday service. St. Andrew's was heavily restored during the

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and features stained-glass windows designed by George W. Taylor.

Honingham Hall

Honingham Hall was built in the Seventeenth Century and remained a private residence until it became a Barnardo's Home during the

. The building was demolished in the 1960s.

Notable Residents

* Richard Catlyn MP- (1520-1556) politician, Lord of Honingham Hall. * Sir Thomas Richardson MP- (1659-1635) judge & Speaker of the House of Commons, Lord of Honingham Hall. *

Richard Baylie Richard Baylie (1585 – 27 July 1667) was twice President of St John's College, Oxford, twice Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, Archdeacon of Nottingham and Dean of the Salisbury Cathedral. Baylie was President of St John's College, Oxford ...

- (1585-1667)

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administrator & clergyman, Lord of Honingham Hall. * Paul Bayning, 1st Viscount Bayning- (1588-1629) peer, Lord of Honingham Hall. * William Townshend MP- (1702-1738) politician, Lord of Honingham Hall. * Charles Townshend, 1st Baron Bayning- (1728-1810) politician, Lord of Honinghall Hall. * Charles Powlett MP, 2nd Baron Bayning- (1785-1823) peer & politician, Lord of Honingham Hall. * Henry William-Powlett, 3rd Baron Bayning- (1797-1866) peer & clergyman, Lord of Honingham Hall. * Clare Sewell Read MP- (1826-1905) agriculturalist and politician, lived in Honingham. * Ailwyn Fellowes KCVO KBE, 1st Baron Ailwyn- (1855-1924) businessman, farmer & politician, Lord of Honingham Hall. * Sir Eric Teichman- (1884-1944) diplomat & orientalist, Lord of Honingham Hall.

Governance

Honingham is part of the

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of Great Witchingham for local elections and is part of the

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Broadland Broadland is a local government district in Norfolk, England, named after the Norfolk Broads. Its council is based at the Broadland Business Park on the outskirts of Norwich. The district includes the towns of Acle, Aylsham, Reepham, Spro ...

. The village's national constituency is Broadland and Fakenham which has been represented by the Conservative Party's Jerome Mayhew MP since 2019.

War Memorial

Honingham War Memorial is a wooden triptych at the junction of The Street and Hall Drive which was erected by a committee led by Ailwyn Fellowes and dedicated in 1919 by Bertram Pollock, Bishop of Norwich. The memorial lists the following names for the

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References

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