Norfolk: Heckingham
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Modern and Historical Maps of this Parish.
Heckingham is about 6 miles N.E. of Bungay (which is in Suffolk).
Cemeteries
See Norfolk Parish Links: Cemeteries
Census
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Censuses
Church Directories
- In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Brooke, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
- The parish church is dedicated to St Gregory.
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Nearby Churches of all denominations.
Church History
- Church of St Gregory
- Description and pictures.
Church Records
- Parish Register Transcripts
- Baptisms 1813-1880
- 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 1930 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), Heckingham was in
Loddon and Clavering Registration District.
Description and Travel
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Description and Travel
Gazetteers and Directories
Heckingham is in Clavering hundred.
Land and Property
- Great Britain: Statute
- Norton Subcourse and Heckingham Inclosure Act, 1817.
An act for inclosing lands within the parishes of Norton and
Heckingham, in the county of Norfolk; and for draining certain
lands in the said parish of Norton.
[George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1817]
Maps
- Parish outline and location.
- See Parish Map for Loddon and Clavering Registration District, 1836
- Modern and Historical Maps
- Maps of the parish and nearby places.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Maps
Military Records
- Roll of Honour for Hales and Heckingham.
- World Wars 1 and 2.
Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc
- Extract from White's Directory of Norfolk, 1845:
- "Loddon and Clavering Union comprises all the 40 parishes of
Loddon and Clavering Hundreds, and also Yelverton, in Henstead
Hundred. These 41 parishes were incorporated, for the support
of their poor, by act of parliament, in 1763, when they built
a large House of Industry at Heckingham. This was adopted as
the Union Workhouse, in 1836."
- Loddon and Clavering Union Workhouse
- Complete description from White's Directory of Norfolk, 1845.
- Loddon and Clavering Union Parishes
- List of parishes in the union.
- Loddon and Clavering Poor Law Union and Workhouse
- Description and pictures.
- Loddon and Clavering Workhouse
- Ground floor plan of the workhouse.
- Heckingham Workhouse became Hales Hospital.
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- Bilyard, John
- Hales Hospital: A history - workhouse to hospital.
[ISBN 0951241907, Norwich, Norwich Health Authority, 1987]
- Bilyard, John
- Hales Hospital: Thirty Years of Friendship.
[The Friends of Hales Hospital, 1991?]
- Reid, Andy
- Fire at the Workhouse! A study in cause and motive.
[ISBN 1869831160, Great Yarmouth, Bridge Publications,
Teaching historical skills series, 1988]
- Reid, Andy
- The Union Workhouse: A Study Guide for Teachers and Local
Historians.
Includes the Mitford and Launditch Union at Gressenhall, the
Depwade Union at Pulham Market, and the Loddon and Clavering
Union at Heckingham.
[ISBN 0850339146, Chichester, Phillimore, for the British
Association for Local History, 1994]
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January 2008