Norfolk: Bressingham
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Modern and Historical Maps of this Parish.
Bressingham is about 2 miles N.W. of Diss.
See also Bessingham.
Cemeteries
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Transcriptions of gravestones in the churchyard.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Cemeteries
Census
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Censuses
Church Directories
- In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Redenhall, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
- The parish church is dedicated to St John the Baptist.
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Nearby Churches of all denominations.
Church History
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Description, history and picture.
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Description, history and pictures.
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Services, etc.
- Cotton, Simon; and Tricker, Roy
- St John the Baptist, Bressingham: a brief guide.
[Norfolk Churches Trust, 1980s]
- Bressingham Methodist Church
- Minister, services, address, description, picture, etc
Church Records
- Campling, Arthur
- Index of Marriages, Bressingham, 1559-1755.
[Norwich Local Studies Library, Handwritten document, 1930s]
- Marriages
- These are included in
Boyd's Marriage Index.
They are not included in Phillimore's Marriage Registers.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Church Records
Civil Registration
For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837
and 1902 (and for the censuses of 1851 to 1901), Bressingham was in
Guiltcross Registration District.
This district was abolished on 1st April 1902 and, from then until 1930,
Bressingham was in
Depwade Registration District
for civil registration.
Description and Travel
- Bressingham and Fersfield
- Map, description, organisations, news, pictures, etc.
- Bressingham and Fersfield Parish Council
- Meetings, minutes, etc
- Bressingham
- Pictures.
- Handy, Elizabeth
- Behind the view: portraits of a Norfolk village,
Bressingham, then and now.
[ISBN 0952754908, Bressingham, 1996]
- Bressingham Common Smock Mill
- Description, history and map.
- Bressingham Fen Street Smock Mill
- Description, history and picture.
- Bressingham Lopham Road Smock Mill
- Description, history and picture.
- Bressingham Steam Museum and Gardens
- Description and pictures.
- Bloom, Alan
- Steam alive: the story of Bressingham steam museum.
[ISBN 0948251565, Picton Publishing, 1992]
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Description and Travel
Gazetteers and Directories
Bressingham is in Diss hundred.
Land and Property
- Great Britain: Statute
- Bressingham and Fersfield Inclosure Act, 1799.
An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing, the Lammas
meadows, fen grounds, commons, and waste lands, within the
parishes of Bressingham and Fersfield, in the county of
Norfolk, and for extinguishing all rights of common,
sheepwalk, and shackage, in, over, and upon, all the lands and
grounds within the said parishes.
[1799]
Maps
- Parish outline and location.
- See Parish Map for Guiltcross Registration District, 1836
- Modern and Historical Maps
- Maps of the parish and nearby places.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Maps
Military Records
- War Memorial
- World Wars 1 and 2.
Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc
Population
These figures are from the population tables which were produced after the
10-yearly national censuses. The "Families" heading includes families and
single occupiers.
| Year |
Inhabited Houses |
Families |
Population |
| 1801 | 75 | 108 | 650 |
| 1811 | 84 | 122 | 635 |
| 1821 | 88 | 126 | 702 |
| 1831 | 91 | 155 | 655 |
| 1841 | 132 | -- | 647 |
| 1851 | 145 | -- | 674 |
|
| Year |
Inhabited Houses |
Families |
Population |
| 1861 | 137 | -- | 596 |
| 1871 | 138 | 138 | 595 |
| 1881 | 125 | 125 | 509 |
| 1891 | 124 | 124 | 553 |
| 1901 | 118 | 118 | 482 |
| 1911 | -- | 129 | 504 |
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There may be more people living in detached parts of the parish (if there
were any) and, if so, the number may or may not be included in the figures
above. It is quite difficult to be sure from the population tables.
- 1831 Census
- "The Parish of Bressingham has experienced a decrease of
Population (47 Persons), partly attributed to Families
emigrating to the United States."
- 1861 Census
- "GUILTCROSS. The decrease of population in most of the parishes
of this District is attributed partly to the migration of
labourers to towns and manufacturing districts. In some parishes
it has also been consequent upon the failure of hand-loom
hemp-cloth weaving."
- 1901 Census
- "Including Bressingham Common, and Fen Street."
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