England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Bedingham lies in southeastern Norfolk quite close to its border with neighbouring Suffolk. Bedingham is located about 4 miles northwest of the Suffolk market town of Bungay. There is very little to modern day Bedingham, a mere hamlet and a scatter of farms and cottages with no defined village at all. Bedingham is sited about a mile west of the B1332 road which connects Bungay through Brooke & Poringland to Norwich. The area, today, is intensively arable in nature and whilst the crops may have changed little has changed since the time of this transcript. Bedingham is drained by the Broome Beck which heads eastwards to join the Waveney between Bungay and Beccles and thence to the North Sea through the port of Great Yarmouth. Bedingham is sited at around 30 metres above the sea in a largely flat or gently rolling plain with local heights reaching only 10 metres higher. Bedingham parish was typically sized for Norfolk, covering just over 1,300 acres it would have supported a population of around 300 parishioners. In Domesday times Bedingham was held directly by King William with a smaller portion held by Roger Bigot, collectively the parish could offer 16 ploughs as well as meadows and woodland dotted with the recorded farm livestock. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 5th July 1754 - 16th November 1812 | Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD/443/7 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 3 entries per page | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
2 | 28th November 1814 - 4th November 1836 | Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD/443/8 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Topcroft
St Margaret
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Hedenham
St Peter
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Denton
St Mary the Virgin
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Denton
St Mary the Virgin
Earsham All Saints |
Earsham
All Saints
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