Norfolk: Ashmanhaugh

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Ashmanhaugh is about 9 miles E.S.E. of Aylsham.
The name is pronounced Ashmanner.

Cemeteries

Rye, Walter: The Monumental Inscriptions in the Hundred of Tunstead, in the county of Norfolk.
The parishes included are: Ashmanhaugh, Bacton, Barton Turf, Beeston St Lawrence, Bradfield, Crostwight, Dilham, Edingthorpe, Felmingham, Honing, Horning, Hoveton St John, Hoveton St Peter, Irstead, Neatishead, North Walsham, Paston, Ridlington, Sco Ruston, Sloley, Smallburgh, Swafield, Tunstead, Westwick, Witton, and Worstead.
[Norwich, Goose, 1891]

Census

Church Directories

The parish is in the Deanery of Waxham, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
The parish church is dedicated to St Swithin.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of St Swithin: Description, history, location, services, pictures, etc.
Church of St Swithin: Description and pictures.

Church Records

Parish Register Transcripts: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials.
Parish Register Transcripts: Baptisms 1562-1812, Banns 1562-1812, Marriages 1562-1901 and Burials 1562-1811.
[Parish Register Transcription Society, Dart Series, 2000?]
Marriages: These are included in Boyd's Marriage Index.
They are not included in Phillimore's Marriage Registers.

Civil Registration

For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1869 (and for the censuses in 1851 and 1861), Ashmanhaugh was in Tunstead and Happing Registration District.

This district was renamed on 1st January 1870 and, from then until 1930, Ashmanhaugh was in Smallburgh Registration District for civil registration and for the censuses of 1871 to 1901.

Directories

Historical Geography

Ashmanhaugh is in Tunstead hundred.

Land and Property

Great Britain. Inclosure Commissioners: Statement of Claims: Ashmanhaugh (10) and Irstead.
Drawn up in pursuance of the Act of Inclosure, 1808.
[1808]
Great Britain: Statute: Ashmanhaugh Inclosure Act, 1808.
An act for inclosing lands in the parish of Ashmanhaugh, in the county of Norfolk.
[An independently printed edition of the act, 1808]

Maps

Parish outline and location.: See Parish Map for Tunstead and Happing Registration District, 1836
Modern and Historical Maps: Maps of the parish and nearby places.

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

In 1785 Ashmanhaugh became part of the Tunstead and Happing Incorporation, and the workhouse was at Smallburgh.
In 1869 the incorporation became the Smallburgh Union.

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