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

Loddon and Clavering Union Workhouse was in this parish.
1881: Loddon and Clavering Union Workhouse
1891: Heckingham: Surname List
1891: Loddon and Clavering Union Workhouse: Surname List

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.
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.

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

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.

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.
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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