Norfolk: Boughton
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Boughton is about 9 miles southwest of Swaffham.
See also Beighton.
Cemeteries
See Norfolk Parish Links: Cemeteries
Census
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Censuses
Church Directories
- In 1883 the parish was in the
Deanery of Fincham, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
It could have been in a different deanery or archdeaconry both
before and after this date.
- The parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
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Nearby Churches of all denominations.
Church Records
- Farrow, Charles W.
- Boughton (Church of England) Parish Registers, 1691-1837;
transcribed and indexed.
[Norwich, Norfolk and Norwich Genealogical Society,
the parish registers of Norfolk, monograph series: 12, 1986]
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Church Records
Civil Registration
For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837
and 1930 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), Boughton was in
Downham Registration District.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Civil Registration
Description and Travel
- Wissey Valley Web Pages
- Including Wereham, Wretton, West Dereham, Boughton, Stoke Ferry
and Whittington in the Wissey Valley in West Norfolk.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Description and Travel
Directories
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Directories
Historical Geography
Boughton is in Clackclose Hundred.
- Parish outline and location.
- See Parish Map for Clackclose Hundred
- Description of Clackclose Hundred
- 1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
History
- Coates, Doris E
- The Story of Boughton.
[ISBN 0950687111, Harpsden Press, 1982]
Land and Property
- Great Britain. Inclosure Commissioners
- Statement of Claims (18): Boughton.
Drawn up in pursuance of the Act of Inclosure, 1801.
[1801]
- Great Britain: Statute
- Boughton Inclosure Act, 1801.
An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing the common
fields, half year or shack lands, commonable grounds, commons,
and waste lands, within the parish of Boughton, in the county
of Norfolk.
[1801]
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Land and Property
Maps
- Modern and Historical Maps
- Maps of the parish.
Military Records
See Norfolk Parish Links: Military Records
Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc
Voting Registers
See Norfolk Parish Links: Voting Registers
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