Barningham Norwood, Norfolk

Historical Description

Barningham-Norwood, a parish in Norfolk, 4½ miles ESE of Holt station on the Eastern & Midlands railway. Norwich is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Aldborough. Acreage, 836; population, 40. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £140 with residence. The church is an ancient structure of flint with stone dressings, in the Early English style.

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 County	Norfolk
Ecclesiastical parish	Barningham-Northwood St. Mary
Hundred	North Erpingham
Poor Law union	Erpingham

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.

Churches

Church of England

St Peter (parish church)

The church of St. Peter is an ancient building of flint, with stone dressings, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch, and an embattled western tower containing one bell: there are three monuments to Sir Austin Palgrave knt. d. 1720, and members of his family: the whole church was thoroughly restored in 1893, when the nave and north aisle were new-roofed and one of the west windows was reopened at a total cost of £560, in 1895 the porch was restored and new chancel stalls and a lectern provided at a cost of £120: there are 65 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 Barningham Norwood from the following:

Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Barningham-Northwood (St. Mary))

Maps

Online maps of Barningham Norwood 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:

Visitations Heraldic

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