The parish of Hockham (also known as Great Hockham - Little Hockham is little more than a farmstead a mile to the south) lies in southwestern Norfolk about 6 miles northeast of the market town of Thetford. The village lies on the A1075 road which connects Thetford with Watton. The road now bypasses the village to the west and there is peace in the high street nowadays. Hockham lies in Breckland amid extensive areas of forestry, pines growing where once rabbit warrens and grazing sheep predominated. The soil is very sandy and poor for arable farming. Just west of the parish the ancient trackway of Peddar's Way runs forming the parishes western boundary.

Holy Trinity church lies to the south of the village in the grounds of the hall and accessed by a lane from what was once a significant bend in the A1075. The church largely dates from the early 14th century and has nave, aisles and a rather lofty chancel. The majority of the building is in the Decorated style making it an early one for a Norfolk church. Of the bell-tower surmounting the building perhaps saying less is best (Pevsner describes it as "depressing"), it replaces a former tower which collapsed in the early 18th century.