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 | | The township is traversed by the New York, New Haven and Hartford railway, and contains the villages of Flingham, West Hingham, Hingham Center, and South Hingham. |
 | | The Old Meeting House, erected in 1681, ~s one of the oldest church buildings in the country used continuously. |
 | | There were settlers here as early as 1633, some of themnotably Edmund Hobart, ancestor of Bishop John Henry Hobart, being natives of Hingham, Norfolk, England, whence the name; and in 1635 common land called Barecove became the township of Hingham. |
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