Norfolk: Heckingham
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Heckingham is about 6 miles N.E. of Bungay (which is in Suffolk).
Cemeteries
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Census
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Censuses
Church Directories
- In 1883 the parish was in the
Deanery of Brooke, 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 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.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Civil Registration
Description and Travel
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Description and Travel
Directories
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Directories
Historical Geography
Heckingham is in Clavering Hundred.
- Parish outline and location.
- See Parish Map for Clavering Hundred
- Description of Clavering Hundred
- 1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
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]
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Land and Property
Maps
- Modern and Historical Maps
- Maps of the parish.
Military Records
- Roll of Honour for Hales and Heckingham.
- World Wars 1 and 2.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Military Records
Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc
After 1834 Heckingham became part of the Loddon and Clavering Union,
and the workhouse was in this parish.
- Loddon and Clavering Union
- Parishes in the union, their arrangements for the poor before
1834, etc.
- Loddon and Clavering Union and Workhouse
- Description from White's Directory of Norfolk, 1845.
- Loddon and Clavering Union and Workhouse
- Description and pictures.
- 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]
Voting Registers
See Norfolk Parish Links: Voting Registers
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Copyright © Pat Newby.
January 2008