Helhoughton

Helhoughton is a village and civil parish in Norfolk, England. It is 4.2 miles west-south-west of the town of Fakenham, 29.3 miles west-northwest of Norwich and 112 miles north-northeast of London. The nearest railway station is at Sheringham for the Bittern Line which runs between Sheringham, Cromer and Norwich. The nearest airport is Norwich International Airport. The parish had, in the 2001 census, a population of 197, rising to 346 at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of North Norfolk.

Helhoughton is a small parish in northwest part of the county of Norfolk. The parish is bordered to the north by the parish of Tattersett and to the south by the parish of Raynham. To the west is the parish of West Rudham and to the east is the parish of Dunton where the parish boundary line is partly the course of the River Wensum the large landscape park surrounding Raynham Hall is on the east side of the riverbank. The tributary of the Wensum called the River Tat also passes through the northern rim of the parish. The small hamlet of Painston, which can be found on Faden’s map of 1797, was to the west of the village and has now virtually disappeared with only Painswhin Farm, which dates to the 18th century, on the site of the lost settlement. The name Helhoughton is thought to derive from a mixture of Old English and Old Scandinavian and has the meaning farmstead of a man named Helgi.

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