HILGAY, a parish in the hundred of CLACKCLOSE,
county of NORFOLK, 3 miles (S. by E.) from Downham-
Market, containing 968 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese
of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £10. The
King presented in 1819. The church is dedicated to All
Saints. Near the bank of the Ouse, in this parish, was a
small priory of Black monks, a cell to Ramsey abbey.