Hemblington is a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

in the

English county The counties of England are areas used for different purposes, which include administrative, geographical, cultural and political demarcation. The term "county" is defined in several ways and can apply to similar or the same areas used by each ...

of Norfolk, about east of Norwich. It covers an area of and had a population of 316 in 134 households at the 2001 census, increasing to a population of 332 in 146 households at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of Broadland. As well as the village of Hemblington the parish includes the hamlet of Pedham some to the northwest. The villages name means 'farm/settlement connected with Hemele'. The Domesday Book records Hemblington as ''Hemelingetun''.

Church of All Saints

The

Church of England parish church A parish church in the Church of England is the church which acts as the religious centre for the people within each Church of England parish (the smallest and most basic Church of England administrative unit; since the 19th century sometimes ca ...

of All Saints is in the

deanery A deanery (or decanate) is an ecclesiastical entity in the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Anglican Communion, the Evangelical Church in Germany, and the Church of Norway. A deanery is either the jurisdiction or residenc ...

Blofield Blofield is a village and civil parish in the Broadland district of Norfolk, England. The parish includes Blofield and the hamlets of Blofield Heath and Blofield Corner and, according to the 2001 census, had a population of 3,221, increasing to ...

and is one of 124 existing

round-tower church Round-tower churches are a type of church found mainly in England, mostly in East Anglia; of about 185 surviving examples in the country, 124 are in Norfolk, 38 in Suffolk, six in Essex, three in Sussex and two each in Cambridgeshire and Berkshi ...

es in Norfolk. There is a famous 15th-century painting of

St Christopher Saint Christopher ( el, Ἅγιος Χριστόφορος, ''Ágios Christóphoros'') is venerated by several Christian denominations as a martyr killed in the reign of the 3rd-century Roman emperor Decius (reigned 249–251) or alternatively u ...

inside the church, which was uncovered and restored by Professor E. W. Tristram of the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1937. It is a Grade I listed building.

Hemblington Hall

Hemblington Hall Hemblington Hall is a large farmhouse in Norfolk county, England, built around 1700 with a Georgian facade. This grade II listed building was the home of the Heath family during the 18th and 19th centuries. The nearby All Saints Church contains me ...

is a grade II listed Georgian house dating from c.1700.

Notes

http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Hemblington

External links

Official website of Hemblington ChurchAll Saints on the European Round Tower Churches WebsiteGENUKI: Hemblingtonarea information
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