Hempnall is a village and

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in the

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Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...

. It covers an area of and had a population of 1,310 in 522 households at the 2001 census, the population reducing to 1,292 at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the

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. The villages name means 'Hemma's nook of land'. Hempnall lies on the B1527 road, with neighbouring villages including

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and Saxlingham Nethergate. Facilities in Hempnall include a village hall, playing field, a

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, and a

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run by

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. 'The Hempnall Trust', a village charity, runs The Hempnall Mill Centre at the site of Hempnall Mill.

Governance

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in the same name exists. This ward stretches east also south to

Shelton and Hardwick Shelton and Hardwick is a civil parish in South Norfolk, England, made up of the villages of Shelton and Hardwick. It lies about 3 km south-east of Long Stratton, about 6 km north of Harleston, Norfolk, Harleston and 10 km west of ...

with a total population at the 2011 population of 2,560.

Recreation

Hempnall is home to a popular Tennis Club. In the heart of South Norfolk, the club boasts 2 quality floodlit hard courts that can be hired all year round to the public and club members. Their website can be reache
here

Notable people

Anna Hinderer Anna Hinderer or Anna Martin (1827–1870) was a British missionary to Ibadan, Yoruba Country which is now part of Nigeria. She is celebrated by a stained-glass window in Liverpool Cathedral. Life Hinderer was born in Hempnall in Norfolk in 1827 ...

, missionary, was born here in 1827. Hinderer has a small stained glass window devoted to her in the Lady Chapel of Liverpool Cathedral.Book on Little Known Christian Heroine
NetworkNorwich, Retrieved 18 March 2017 According to John Wesley’s journal, on 4th September 1759 he walked the nine miles from Norwich to preach in Hempnall market place. He described how he was followed by a mob from Norwich, who may have been financed by the city’s brewers, and the mob’s ringleader tried to disrupt the proceedings with a horn. This was quickly thrown away by one of the crowd and the others were soon deeply attentive to John Wesley’s message: “By grace ye are saved through faith”

Notes

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

External links

Parish Council website
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