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.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Norfolk | |
Hundred | Eynsford | |
Poor Law union | Mitford 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):
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1640-1812 | 1640-1812 | 1640-1837 | 1640-1812 |
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:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Billingford)
Maps
Online maps of Billingford 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.