Description
Heckingham, a village and a parish in Norfolk, on the river Ret, an affluent of the Yare, 1 1/2 mile E from Loddon, and 3 1/2 SW by W from Reedham station on the G.E.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Loddon, under Norwich. Acreage, 1103; population of the civil parish, 257, of the ecclesiastical, 546. Loddon Workhouse, which can admit 600 inmates, but which generally has from 100 to 150, is here. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Hales, in the diocese of Norwich; joint gross yearly value, £103. The church is ancient but good, and has a circular tower surmounted by an octagonal turret.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
