Blickling
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Blickling is a village and civil parish in the Broadland district of the English county of Norfolk. It is north-west of Aylsham and north of Norwich. Most of the village is located within the Blickling Estate, which has been owned by the National Trust since 1940.
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- Locality
- Broadland
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Blickling
- UK place.static_image_name
- Blickling church.JPG
- UK place.static_image_caption
- The Church of St Andrew
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.region
- East of England
- UK place.shire_district
- Broadland
- UK place.shire_county
- Norfolk
- UK place.civil_parish
- Blickling
- UK place.population
- 111
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021)
- UK place.area_total_km2
- 8.62
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TG1775428491
- UK place.post_town
- Norwich
- UK place.postcode_area
- NR
- UK place.postcode_district
- NR11
- UK place.dial_code
- 01263
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Broadland and Fakenham
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- History
- Geography
- Church
- Blickling Hall
- Governance
- Notable people
- References
- External links
Blickling is a village and civil parish in the Broadland district of the English county of Norfolk. It is north-west of Aylsham and north of Norwich. Most of the village is located within the Blickling Estate, which has been owned by the National Trust since 1940.
== History == Blickling's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin. It is listed in the Domesday Book as a settlement of 44 households in the hundred of South Erpingham. In 1086, the village was part of the estates of William the Conqueror and William, Bishop of Thetford.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Blickling” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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