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Hickling Priory is a Premonstratensian house founded in the twelfth century in Norfolk, situated in the Broadland area near Great Yarmouth. The priory was established as a daughter house and became a significant religious community during the medieval period, though it experienced the economic pressures and changes that affected many religious houses in the later Middle Ages. The surviving remains include fragmentary stone and brick structures that reflect the priory's monastic buildings, with elements visible from the medieval and post-Dissolution periods. The site bears testimony to the spread of the Premonstratensian order across East Anglia and the archaeological character of Norfolk's monastic landscape.
Hickling Priory is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020859. View the official record →
Hickling Priory is a Premonstratensian house founded in the twelfth century in Norfolk, situated in the Broadland area near Great Yarmouth. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020859.
Hickling Priory is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1020859.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Site of Manorial Complex, Hall Farm, Waxham (2.6 km), Potter Heigham Bridge (6.3 km), St James's Hospital (9.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Hickling Priory's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Hickling Priory stands on Neogene To Quaternary Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Quaternary. The rock here is gravel, sand, silt and clay.