Detail of a brass memorial to Newcombe in the chancel of St Mary's, Feltwell. The arms of Newcome impaled (side by side) with Clough are on the right. Rev William Newcome died in 1846, by which time he had become the principle landowner in the village. Rev William Newcome was not Rector at Hockwold but instead was the imcumbent

Three crescents (Newcome) charged with a fesse wavy between three leopard faces (Clough) It seems that by the early 19th century, Poyning's Manor became known as Hockwold Hall, and the western part of the Tudor house was remodelled with Georgian windows to the west and south. The escutcheon over the front door has the shield of Newcombe charged (overlain)

A crowd of almost 100 assembled in Hockwold, which incidentally was in the process of being enclosed, on Friday 17th May, "and did make Noise, Riot, Route, Tumult and Disturbance" for over six hours. They gathered early outside the house of the Reverend William Newcombe, where apparently, they were resisted by James Stark, one of the labourers

  Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of Ireland Cyrill Clough married Mary King at Feltwell in 1777, and had two sons, who predeceased him, and four daughters. On this death in 1805, his youngest daughter Catherine inherited the Hockwold property and she married Rev William Newcome in 1808. William Newcome was the son of the Archbishop of Armash and together Catherine

DUM SPECTAS FUGIO (Whilst thou lookest I fly) The hour lines have both Roman and Arabic numerals. Hyperbolic declination lines are marked with the signs of the Zodiac to tell the time of year (in summer). Apparently the motto and perhaps the whole dial, is a copy of one of four dials on the market  house (or ‘cross’) at

  Edward Billingsley is recorded as being at Hockwold Hall in 1786 and being there as High Sherriff of Norfolk in 1787, presumably as a tenet of Cyrill Clough. His will puts him still at Hockwold in 1814, well after 1805 when the property passed to Cyrill's daughter Catherine.

  After the death of Sir Cyril Wyche in 1707, ownership passed to his son Jermyn Wyche (c1670-1720), MP for Fowey. He left the property to his only son, also Cyril Wyche (b. 1707),  High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1729, and also knighted. His initials appear on the stable block with the date 1757. On his death in 1780, the

Mary Evelyn (1648-1723) became the third wife of Sir Cyril Wyche in 1692 when she was already 44 years old and he was 60. She had been born at Wotton, Kent where her father George Evelyn created a renowned Italian garden in 1643-52. When George died in 1699, Wotton went to his brother, the famous gardener, diarist and Fellow

Sir Cyril Wyche Sir Cyril Wyche married to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Jermyn of Rushbrooke in 1663 and in 1664 their first son, Jermyn was baptised at Hockwold. This son did not survive, and their second son, also Jermyn, was born c1670. Sir Cyril had been a founder member of The Royal Society in 1661, and its President

Edward Proger MP Groom of the Bedchamber. In 1661 Charles II gifted Hockwold to a group of courtiers, who sold the title to Sir John Crofts, 1st Baronet of Stow, son of Anthony Crofts, who was second son of Sir John Crofts of Saxham. Since Stow had been inherited by his cousin, William, it appears that Sir John intended Hockwold