Description
Hilborough, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village stands on the river Wissey, 5 1/2 miles S from Swaffham station on the G.E.R., and has a post office (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Mundford. The parish comprises 3109 acres; population, 297. Hilborough Hall is a large mansion surrounded by plantations and an extensive park. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £362. The church is a very ancient building of flint in the Florid Gothic style, has an embattled tower with crocketed pinnacles, and contains a double piscina. Remains exist of St Margaret's or the Pilgrims' chapel, which was served for a time by Dean Colet, the founder of St Paul's School in London.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
