Honingham 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 Nor ...

, located to the west of

Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the Episcopal see, See of ...

along the A47 trunk road. It covers an area of and had a population of 342 in 145 households at the 2001 census,Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes
Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Retrieved 20 June 2009. increasing to a population of 358 in 160 households at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the

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of Broadland.

Honingham Hall Honingham Hall was a large country house at Honingham in Norfolk. History The house was commissioned by Sir Thomas Richardson, Chief Justice of the King’s Bench in 1605. After passing down the Richardson family it was bought by Richard Bay ...

was demolished in 1966. The villages name means 'homestead/village of Huna's people'.

Notable people

* Kenneth Mayhew, RMWO,

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veteran, decorated with the highest honour of the Kingdom of the Netherlands *Sir

Eric Teichman Sir Eric Teichman (born Erik Teichmann; 16 January 1884 – 3 December 1944 in Norfolk, England) was a British diplomat, orientalist, travel writer and photographer. He was a son of Emil Teichmann and Mary Lydia Schroeter, and younger b ...

, British diplomat and orientalist, resident at Honingham Hall at the time of his death and was buried in the churchyard.

Notes

* http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Honingham

External links

Villages in Norfolk Civil parishes in Norfolk Broadland {{Norfolk-geo-stub