Hickling Local History Group

Field Meetings:

Thirty-six Field Meetings were arranged during the active years of the History Group. All but two visited parts of our historic Norfolk village which dates back over 1000 years. Research was undertaken so that comprehensive notes could be prepared to accompany these meetings. Many of the notes were illustrated by artist members of the Group, providing in some cases a pictorial history which does not exist elsewhere.

Field Meeting notes were normally prepared for each Field Meeting. However, on two of the meetings, numbers 21 (St. Mary's Church Bells) & 35 (Visit to the School), "Notes" had not been prepared for the group. We have however now constructed two sets of notes for those meetings so that the set here on this website is now complete.

The Field Meeting notes were produced on A4 cream coloured paper, folded to make a four page (in some cases six or eight) A5 pamphlet. To view them here on the internet would have been rather clumsy due to the original page layout, so we have modified them to be read as consecutive single pages. You may notice that Field Meeting Numbers: 25 & 30 have more than one note. It was felt that for ease of use on the day, the notes should be split. We have faithfully followed the formatting of the originals so that what you see here is exactly as you would have seen it on each original page. As with all the publications here at Hickling History, personal information such as addresses and telephone numbers etc. have been removed.

Click on any of the Links below to view the relevant Field Meeting Note:

• Field Mtg. No. 00 - 15.04.2000 Millennium Exhibition.

• Field Mtg. No. 01 - 06.08.2000 Parish Church and Surrounding Area.

• Field Mtg. No. 02 - 14.10.2000 Priory Ruins, Long Gores & Parish Boundary.

• Field Mtg. No. 03 - 16.12.2000 Village School & Community Hall.

• Field Mtg. No. 04 - 06.06.2001 Doves Corner to The Greyhound.

• Field Mtg. No. 05 - 28.07.2001 Stubb Road & The Methodist Chapel.

• Field Mtg. No. 06 - 22.09.2001 Whiteslea & Hickling Broad (meeting repeated 29.09.2001).

• Field Mtg. No. 07 - 15.12.2001 Hill Common & Hickling Staithe.

• Field Mtg. No. 08 - 25.04.2002 Stubb Rd from The Carnser To Stubb Mill.

• Field Mtg. No. 09 - 15.06.2002 Parish Boundary From Guttermere Bridge towards Catfield and Sutton.

• Field Mtg. No. 10 - 14.09.2002 Willow Farm - Roland Green’s Mill - Crossing Hickling Broad.

• Field Mtg. No. 11 - 28.09.2002 Eastfield Farm & Eastfield Mill.

• Field Mtg. No. 12 - 07.12.2002 Hickling Staithe & Exhibition.

• Field Mtg. No. 13 - 05.04.2003 Hickling Mill & Surrounding Areas.

• Field Mtg. No. 14 - 28.06.2003 St. Mary’s Church to Hickling Hall & Whinmere Farm.

• Field Mtg. No. 15 - 05.08.2003 The Old Rectory & The Area of Brightmere Farm.

• Field Mtg. No. 16 - 27.09.2003 Staithe Road & Surrounding Areas.

• Field Mtg. No. 17 - 14.12.2003 St. Mary’s Parish Church & Churchyard.

• Field Mtg. No. 18 - 08.05.2004 Whiteslea & Hickling Broad.

• Field Mtg. No. 19 - 18.05.2004 Perambulating the Parish Boundary at Rogationtide.

• Field Mtg. No. 20 - 07.06.2004 Lincoln – Cathedral & Castle.

• Field Mtg. No. 21 - 07.08.2004 St. Mary's Church Bells (meeting repeated 08.08.2004).

• Field Mtg. No. 22 - 28.08.2004 Hickling Priory.

• Field Mtg. No. 23 - 07.05.2005 Sutton Mill & Broads Museum.

• Field Mtg. No. 24 - 04.06.2005 Stubb Rd - Pockthorpe Loke - The Causeway- Eastfield Road.

• Field Mtg. No. 25 - 23.04.2006 Town St. - A Short History.

• Field Mtg. No. 25 - 23.04.2006 Town St. - The Great Fire.

• Field Mtg. No. 25 - 23.04.2006 Town St. - Maps.

• Field Mtg. No. 26 - 28.04.2007 Hickling Priory and Long Gores.

• Field Mtg. No. 27 - 28.04.2007 Heath Rd & Hickling Heath.

• Field Mtg. No. 28 - 09.06.2007 Hill Common & The Smea.

• Field Mtg. No. 29 - 18.07.2007 Boating & Trading on Hickling Broad.

• Field Mtg. No. 30 - 19.09.2007 Norwich Cathedral & Close.

• Field Mtg. No. 30 - 19.09.2007 Plans of Norwich Cathedral & Close.

• Field Mtg. No. 31 - 27.04.2008 Revisiting The Street, Doves Corner and Hickling Green from the School to the Greyhound.

• Field Mtg. No. 32 - 08.06.2008 Visit to Horsey, The Mill, Church and Hall.

• Field Mtg. No. 33 - 12.07.2008 Nature Reserve & Stubb Mill.

• Field Mtg. No. 34 - 13.12.2008 Methodism in Hickling.

• Field Mtg. No. 35 - 30.04.2009 Return Visit to Hickling Infant School.

• Field Mtg. No. 36 - 16.05.2009 Return Visit to The Old Rectory and the Surrounding Area.

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