Hilgay

Hilgay

Hilgay lies four miles outside of Downham Market and Bexwell in the English county of Norfolk.

Other places nearby are Fordham, Ryston, Southery and Denver.

Administrativey, Hilgay is a civil parish that forms part of the district of Kings Lynn and West Norfolk. It is now bypassed by the A10 road.

History - a journalist describes Hilgay like this:

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"Hilgay, a village and a parish in Downham district, Norfolk. The village stands on the river Wissey, 2 miles from the Ouse, 3 NE of Hilgay fen . station, and Market-Downham and has a post office under Downham Market. The parish comprises 7,860 acres of which 5,908 are in the Fens. Real property, £13,492. Pop., 1,624. Houses, 365. The property is much subdivided. The hall about ½ a mile from the village, belonged to the abbots of Ramsey, went at the dissolussion to James Howe, belonged now to the Jones family and was rebuilt in the Tudor style in 1840."

There was once a Hilgay railway station on the Fen Line.

External links

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