Hassingham is a village in the civil parish of Strumpshaw, in the Broadland district, in the county of Norfolk, England, about ten miles east of Norwich.

[1] On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Strumpshaw.

William Haslam, a nineteenth-Century evangelical, better known as the Parson who was converted by his own sermon.

During Haslam's ministry in Hassingham, it was said that most of the population of this small village professed evangelical conversion.

[4] Haslam was supported by his wife and the preacher Geraldine Hooper whom they had met in Bath.