England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Cockley Cley lies in west, central Norfolk about 3 miles southwest of the market town of Swaffham. Cockley Cley sits just over 2 miles west of the A1065 road which connects Swaffham through to Brandon. Cockley Cley is a small and compact village which sits in a shallow valley formed by the headwaters of one of the River Wissey's tributaries. The village sits on the edge of Norfolk's share of Breckland, an area of sandy glacial deposits which are relatively infertile land for this normally richly arable county. Whilst arable farming still dominated the parish there were also extensive sheep pastures and , something of a local phenomenon, rabbit warrenries. Today much of the parish land is set to forestry plantation, viewed as better use of the poorer quality land by owner as the light soils have a great tendency for wind erosion when dry. The Wissey's tributary heads off southwest to join it east of Stoke Ferry then making its way into Fenland and the Great Ouse, reaching the North Sea through The Wash. Cockley Cley is sited ar around 30 metres above the sea in fairly gentle terrain which rises steadily to local heights of just over 60 metres by the time it reaches the outskirts of Swaffham. Breckland parishes are often larger then those in eastern Norfolk and Cockley Cley was one of those, it covered just over 4,400 acres and would have supported a population of close to 250 parishioners. In Domesday times the majority of Cockley Cley was held by King William, himself, whilst smaller holdings were with William de Warennes. Collectively the parish could muster 5 ploughs, the usual meadows & woodland but there were 2 mills. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 |
17th October 1754 - 18th December 1790 |
Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD137/3 |
Plain, ruled book containing combined Banns &
Marriages |
Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low
likelihood of misreads |
None |
2 | 25th June 1792 - 30th July 1812 | Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD137/4 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
3 | 27th May 1813 - 14th March 1837 | Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD137/5 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Beachamwell
St Mary
Shingham St Botolph |
Swaffham
St Peter & St Paul
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Swaffham
St Peter & St Paul
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North
Pickenham St Andrew
South Pickenham All Saints |
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Gooderstone
St George
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Great
Cressingham St Michael
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