Hillington, Norfolk

Description
Hillington, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village stands near the river Babingley, 7 miles NE from Lynn, with a post, money order, and telegraph office under Lynn, and a station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway. The parish comprises 2359 acres; population, 275. The manor belonged formerly to the Hovells, from whom it descended to the Ffolkes family. Hillington Hall was built in 1627, has been greatly enlarged and improved, and is a stately mansion. Four ancient crosses are in the village. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, , £268. The church is partly old; the chancel was restored in 1892, and has a square embattled tower; it contains monuments of the Hovells, the Brownes, and the Ffolkes. Handsome schools of Carr stone and red brick were built in 1855.