Bittering Parva or Little Bittering, Norfolk
Historical Description
Bittering Parva or Little Bittering, a village and a parish in Norfolk, 3 miles N by E of Wendling station on the G.E.R., and 5 NW of East Dereham, which is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Gressenhall. Population of the ecclesiastical parish, 50. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £60.
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 Bittering St. Peter | |
Hundred | Launditch | |
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 Bittering Parva:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1816-1911 | 1816-1911 | 1828-1915 |
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 Bittering Parva or Little Bittering from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bittering, Little (St. Peter))
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.