HECKINGHAM, a parish in the hundred of CLAVERING,
county of NORFOLK, 6 miles (N. N. W.) from
Beccles, containing 146 inhabitants, but including the
House of Industry, and the Hospital of Loddon and Clavering,
which are in this parish, 541. The living is a
perpetual curacy, .in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and
diocese of Norwich. Thomas Smyth, Esq. was patron
in 1816. The church is dedicated to St. Gregory.