Barney, Norfolk
Historical Description
Barney, or Bemey, a parish in Norfolk, ½ mile from Thursford station on the Eastern & Midlands railway, and 6 miles ENE of Fakenham. It has a post office under Dereham; money order office, New Walsingham; telegraph office, Melton Constable. Acreage, 1408; population, 284. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £120 with residence. Patron, Lord Hastings. The church is an old building of flint, with an embattled tower. There is also a Wesleyan chapel.
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 | Barney St. Mary | |
Hundred | North Greenhoe | |
Poor Law union | Walsingham |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
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 Barney:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1538-1902 | 1538-1902 | 1542-1902 | 1538-1812 |
Churches
Church of England
St. Mary (parish church)
The church of St. Mary is a building of flint, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, transept and an embattled western tower containing one bell: in the transept are monuments to Mary Reeve, d. 1830; Ann, wife of the Rev. John Lloyd, late vicar of Hindolveston, d. 1805; and to George Phillippe and Margaret, his wife, d. 1846: in 1890 the church was restored at a cost of £390, and now affords 120 sittings.
Methodist
Free Methodist Chapel
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 Barney from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Barney (St. Mary))
Maps
Online maps of Barney 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.