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The ParishThe parish of Forncett St Peter lies in southern Norfolk about 8 miles east of the market town of Attleborough. One of a pair of villages distinguished by their church's dedication. Forncett St Peter is the larger and more southern of the pair and is a rather strung-out linear village situated around 2 miles west of the B1113 road which connects the city of Norwich with New Buckenham. Like most Norfolk villages it is a farming community with the majority of the land used for arable farming, Forncett St Peter did have a little variety in that the eastern portion of the parish lies on the flood-plain of the River Tas and enabled pastures. Modern developments have intruded on the rural peace as the Norwich to London rail line sits just east of the village on the opposite side of the Tas. The Tas drains the parish northwards joining the Yare to the south of Norwich and thence to the North Sea through the port of Great Yarmouth. Forncett St Peter is sited at around 30 metres above the sea in its valley setting, land rises gently to the west to plateau at around 60 metres. Forncett St Peter parish was fairly typically sized for Norfolk's south, it covered around 1,800 acres and would have supported a population of around 650 parishioners. In Domesday times the Forncetts were recorded as one manor and was shared largely by 2 Normans, Roger Bigot & Bishop Osbern of Exeter, with a tiny portion retained by a Saxon survivor, Ulfkil. Collectively Forncett St Mary & St Peter could muster 23 ploughs as well as extensive meadows & woodland making for a prosperous settlement indeed. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 25th July 1754 - 13th November 1812 | Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD421/7 | 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 | 9th January 1813 - 22nd May 1837 | Norfolk Record Office - Reference - PD421/8 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
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