1813 to 1880 Baptism Project Woodton All Saints |
Baptisms 1813 to 1880
The parish of Woodton lies in southeastern Norfolk
not too far from its border with neighbouring Suffolk and
roughly 5 miles northwest of the Suffolk market town of Bungay.
Today's Woodton is quite a large and compact
village which sits a quarter mile west of the B1332 road which
links Bungay through to the city of Norwich. Whilst today Woodton
sits amongst fields its name is suggestive that at one time it
was surrounded by woodland and early maps confirm this to be the
case nowadays largely felled. Like most Norfolk parishes Woodton
earned its living from arable farming, by the time of this
transcript early gazetteers estimated over 75% of the parish
acreage as set to arable crops. Cereals, beet and oil seed
predominate today's fields but then a standard 4-year rotation
would have applied. Woodton is a village that has grown in
modern times, early maps show The Street, north of the main
crossroads, as the principal area of properties whilst today the
village has expanded southwestwards with modern housing
developments. |
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Two standard 800-entry register books
cover the period of this transcript, the second running onward to
completion in the late 20th century. Each is filmed separately,
the first on Microfiche 5 & 6, the second on Microfilm MF597
in the collection of Norfolk Record Office. Thankfully digitised
copies of the first register are free to view on the LDS web site
Familysearch whilst both are generally available to those with
appropriate subscriptions on most of the commercial sites. With
this wealth of resources this was a straightforward piece to
prepare. |
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