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Billingford, Norfolk

Historical Description

Billingford, a village and a parish in Norfolk, on the river Wensum, 1½ mile ESE of Elmham station on the G.E.R., and 3½ miles SSW of Foulsham, with a poat office under Dereham; money order and telegraph office, Elmham. Acreage, 1C41; population, 315. The manor belongs to the Earl of Leicester. An hospital for poor travellers was founded at Beckhall here, in the time of Henry III., by William Beck. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £241, with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Leicester.

The church is a building of flint in the Early English style, and there is a small Primitive Methodist 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 
HundredEynsford 
Poor Law unionMitford and Launditch 

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 Billingford with Thorpe Parva (near Diss):

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1640-18121640-18121640-18371640-1812


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 Billingford from the following:


Maps

Online maps of Billingford 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.

DistrictSouth Norfolk
CountyNorfolk
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtIP21

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