Bale, or Bathley, Norfolk
Historical Description
Bale, or Bathley, a parish in Norfolk, 2 miles NE from Thursford station on the Eastern and Midland railway, and 5 W from Holt. Dereham is the post town; money order office, Holt; telegraph office, Melton Constable. Acreage, 1067; population, 239. The living is a rectory, annexed to that of Gunthorpe, in the diocese of Norwich. The church is an edifice of flint in the Later English and Decorated styles.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Norfolk | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Bale All Saints | |
Hundred | Holt | |
Poor Law union | Walsingham |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
We have transcribed the Marriages at Bale All Saints, 1754-1837.
The register dates from the year 1538.
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Norfolk Record Office, have images of the Parish Registers for Norfolk online.
Findmypast, in conjunction with Norfolk Record Office have the following parish records online for Bale alias Bathley:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1538-1915 | 1538-1915 | 1538-1902 | 1538-1905 |
Churches
Church of England
All Saints (parish church)
The church of All Saints is an edifice of flint, with stone dressings, in the Later English and Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, nave, north transept, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 5 bells, re-hung, and two re-cast, in 1903, at a cost of £150: the window on the south side of the chancel is filled with ancient stained glass and in the chancel is a piscina; a new reredos was provided in 1894 at a cost of £95; the church was repaired and repewed in 1863-4, and has 150 sittings.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Bale, or Bathley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bale, or Baithley (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Bale, or Bathley are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Norfolk newspapers online:
- Norwich Mercury
- Norfolk Chronicle
- Diss Express
- Thetford & Watton Times and People's Weekly Journal
- Norfolk News
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Norfolk 1563, 1589, and 1613 is available on the Heraldry page.