Barningham Parva, Norfolk
Historical Description
Barningham, Little, or Barningham-Parva, a parish in Norfolk, 6 miles NNW of Aylsham, and 3 from Corpusty station on the Eastern & Midlands railway. Norwich is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Aldborough. Acreage, 1251; population, 219. A market and a fair were formerly held here, under charter of Edward I. to Walter de Berningham, lord of the manor. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £166, in the gift of the Earl of Orford. The church, dedicated to St Andrew, is an old building of flint. Its chancel was thoroughly restored in 1878-79. There is also a Free Methodist chapel.
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 | Little Barningham St. Andrew | |
Hundred | South Erpingham | |
Poor Law union | Aylsham |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The parish register dates from the year 1558.
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Norfolk Record Office, have images of the Parish Registers for Norfolk online.
Churches
Church of England
St. Andrew (parish church)
The church of St. Andrew is a building of flint in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower, restored in 1908, and containing one bell: the chancel was thoroughly restored in 1878-9, and the ruined vestry rebuilt on a larger scale; the remaining portion of the church was restored and reseated in 1896, when a new pulpit (given by the Earl of Orford), new prayer desk and font cover were provided, and the nave roof renewed and covered with Broseley tiles from designs by Mr. H. J. Green, architect, of Norwich; the whole cost of restoration being £1,000: the church affords 140 sittings.
Methodist
United 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 Barningham Parva from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Barningham, Little (St. Andrew))
Maps
Online maps of Barningham Parva 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.