HICKLING, a parish in the hundred of HAPPING, county of NORFOLK, 10 miles (E. N. E.) from Coltishall, containing 679 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £5. 3. 4., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty. N. Micklethwayte, Esq. was patron in 1811. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. A priory of Black canons, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, St. Augustine, and All Saints, was founded, in 1185, by Theobald de Valentia, or Valoins, the revenue of which at the dissolution was valued at £137. 0. 1.