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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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyNorfolk 
Ecclesiastical parishBarney St. Mary 
HundredNorth Greenhoe 
Poor Law unionWalsingham 

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:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1538-19021538-19021542-19021538-1812


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:


Maps

Online maps of Barney are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Norfolk newspapers online:


Visitations Heraldic

The Visitations of Norfolk 1563, 1589, and 1613 is available on the Heraldry page.

DistrictNorth Norfolk
CountyNorfolk
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtNR21
Post TownFakenham

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