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Heydon, Norfolk history
Medieval
The name is believed to derive from “high down” or similarly “plain on the hill” The village is not mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. The 14th/15th century Church of St Peter and St Paul is a grade I listed building.
Heydon Hall
Heydon Hall, a Grade I listed building, was built in 1582 by Henry Dynne and extended in the late 18th and early 19th century. The village is still owned by the Bulwer Long family, one of only around a dozen English villages that are entirely privately owned.
18th and 19th centuries
The Earle Arms is grade II listed and has a “Regionally Important Historic Interior” It is believed that a pub has existed at this location since the 16th century, and was a coaching inn. There was a common, located to the northwest of the village, until enclosed into Heydon Park by the mid-19th century. The area was served by the Bluestone railway station from 1883 to 1916.
20th and 21st centuries
Heydon became Norfolk’s first conservation area in 1971, having won the county’s Best Kept Village in 1967 and 1968. No parish-specific figure is available for the 2011 census, however the population is estimated in the 2010s to be around 100. As of 2021, the village has a population of about a hundred.
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