Beechamwell, Norfolk
Historical Description
Beechamwell, a village and a parish in Norfolk, 4½ miles S of Narborough railway station on the G.E.R., and o SW of Swaffham, under which there is a post and money order office, and at which is the telegraph office. Acreage, 3996; population of the civil parish, 363; of the ecclesiastical, with Shingham, 409. Beechamwell Hall is a chief residence. The living is a rectory, with that of Beechamwell St John, .Beechamwell All Saints, and Shingham annexed; gross yearly value, £348 with two residences. Beechamwell church is a small building of flint, with an ancient round western tower. Shingham Church has a fine Norman porch of a very <—arly date.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Norfolk | |
Hundred | Clackclose | |
Poor Law union | Swaffham |
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.
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 Beechamwell from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Beechamwell)
Maps
Online maps of Beechamwell 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.