Norfolk: Bacton

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Bacton is about 10 miles S.E. of Cromer.
It includes the hamlets of Bacton, Bacton Green, Keswick, and Bromholm.
See also Keswick near Norwich.

Cemeteries

The Monumental Inscriptions in the Hundred of Tunstead (Walter Rye).: The parishes covered include Bacton.
See Ashmanhaugh

Census

1841: Surname List. This is a link to an archived copy.
1891: Surname List

Church Directories

In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Waxham, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
The parish church is dedicated to St Andrew.
The ruins of Bromholm Priory are in the parish.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of St Andrew: Description, history and pictures.
Church of St Andrew: Description, location and picture.
Church of St Andrew: Description and pictures.

Church Records

Church of St Andrew

Marriages

These are included in Boyd's Marriage Index.
They are not included in Phillimore's Marriage Registers.

Parish Registers

List of Surnames of People who come from other Parishes

Parish Register Extracts

These extracts have been found by the Norfolk transcribers for FreeREG, in the Bacton register of baptisms and burials 1711-1812, and marriages 1712-1753.

At the Census, taken May 27, 1811
The Population of Bacton was		314
Inhabited Houses	57
Unoccupied "	2
Families	71
Males Baptized	44
Females "	40
Males buried	26
Females "	27

The Population in 1821 was		388
Males 200 Females 188

Bacton Particular Baptist Chapel

Parish Register Transcripts: Baptisms 1813-1880

Civil Registration

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

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

Description and Travel

Bacton: Description, history and pictures.
Bacton: Description and pictures.
Bacton Wood: Description and pictures.
Pictures of old Bacton: From the Frith Collection.
Bacton Post Mill: Description.
Bacton Wood Post Mill: Description and history.
Bacton Wood Water Mill: Description, history and pictures.
Knights, Mark: The illustrated guide to Cromer and neighbourhood: including Runton, Sherringham, Overstrand, Sidestrand, Mundesley, Northrepps, Bacton, Bromholm, and the Broads; revised to the present time by Mark Knights.
[London: Jarrold, 1889?]

Gazetteers and Directories

Bacton is in Tunstead hundred.

History

(No author): A short record of Bromholm Priory, Bacton, Norfolk.
[1935]
Green, Charles, Rector of Burgh Castle: The history, antiquities, and geology of Bacton in Norfolk.
[Norwich, Fletcher, 1842]
Jennings, Walton: The Story of Bacton, Norfolk.
[2 volumes, Typescript in Norwich Local Studies Library, 1948]
Pearce, Christopher: Bromholm Priory: a case study of an English Cluniac monastic site.
[Norwich, University of East Anglia Extra Mural Studies Thesis, 1999]

Land and Property

Great Britain. Inclosure Commissioners: Statement of claims (67): Witton, Bacton, Edingthorpe and Paston.
Drawn up in pursuance of the Act of Inclosure, 1812.
[1812]
Great Britain: Statute: Witton and other parishes inclosure act, 1812.
An act for inclosing lands in the parishes of Witton, Bacton, Edingthorpe, and Paston, in the county of Norfolk.
[1812]

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.

Military Records

Roll of Honour: World War 1.
Bacton Airfield: Short description.

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Bacton became part of the Tunstead and Happing (or Smallburgh) Union, and the workhouse was at Smallburgh.

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