Bedingham, Norfolk
Historical Description
Bedingham, a parish in Norfolk, 4 miles NW of Bungay station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Bungay, which is the telegraph office; money order office, Hempnall. Acreage, 1366, population, 288. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £150. The church is a large ancient building with a round tower having an octagonal top, and containing five bells.
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 | Bedingham St. Andrew | |
Hundred | Loddon | |
Poor Law union | Loddon and Clavering |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
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 Bedingham:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1555-1904 | 1555-1904 | 1562-1836 | 1557-1904 |
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 Bedingham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bedingham (St. Andrew))
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.