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Hethel
Hethel is a small village in the civil parish of Bracon Ash, in the South Norfolk district, in the English county of Norfolk.
Hethel is located five miles (8.0 km) south-east of the market town of Wymondham, and approximately ten miles (16 km) south of the city of Norwich.
Hethel's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for heather hill.
In the Domesday Book, Hethel is listed as a settlement of 21 households in the hundred of Humbleyard. In 1086, the village was divided between the estates of Roger Bigod and Judicael the Priest.
Hethel Hall was built in the Seventeenth Century and was demolished in the 1950s.
On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Bracon Ash.
In 1931 the parish had a population of 118.
Hethel is noted for containing the oldest known living hawthorn tree in East Anglia and possibly in the United Kingdom (reputed to be more than 700 years old). Planted in the 13th century, "Hethel Old Thorn" (a specimen of Common Hawthorn, Crataegus monogyna)[1][2] is in the village churchyard, which is classified as the smallest reserve under the care of the British Wildlife Trusts partnership.[3]
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Hethel
Hethel is a small village in the civil parish of Bracon Ash, in the South Norfolk district, in the English county of Norfolk.
Hethel is located five miles (8.0 km) south-east of the market town of Wymondham, and approximately ten miles (16 km) south of the city of Norwich.
Hethel's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for heather hill.
In the Domesday Book, Hethel is listed as a settlement of 21 households in the hundred of Humbleyard. In 1086, the village was divided between the estates of Roger Bigod and Judicael the Priest.
Hethel Hall was built in the Seventeenth Century and was demolished in the 1950s.
On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Bracon Ash.
In 1931 the parish had a population of 118.
Hethel is noted for containing the oldest known living hawthorn tree in East Anglia and possibly in the United Kingdom (reputed to be more than 700 years old). Planted in the 13th century, "Hethel Old Thorn" (a specimen of Common Hawthorn, Crataegus monogyna)[1][2] is in the village churchyard, which is classified as the smallest reserve under the care of the British Wildlife Trusts partnership.[3]