Norfolk: Hempstead by Holt

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Hempstead by Holt is about 2 miles S.E. of Holt.
See also Hempstead near Stalham.

Cemeteries

The Monumental Inscriptions in the Hundred of Holt (Walter Rye).: The parishes covered include Hempstead by Holt.
See Thornage

Census

1841: Surname List. This is a link to an archived copy.
1891: Surname List

Church Directories

In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Holt, in the archdeaconry of Norwich.
The parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of All Saints: Services and location.

Church Records

Archdeacon's Transcripts: Gresham (Bapt 1725-1812, Mar 1742-1812, Bur 1725-1812),
and Hempstead by Holt (Bapt 1730-1812, Mar 1730-1812, Bur 1730-1812).
[Parish Register Transcription Society, Vol NFK032 (fiche), 1990s]
Archdeacon's Transcripts: Marriages. This is a link to an archived copy.
Marriages: These are not included in Boyd's Marriage Index or 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), Hempstead by Holt was in Erpingham Registration District.

Description and Travel

Carver, Robin: Hempstead: a Norfolk village.
[Hempstead Church Buildings Trust, 2000]
Hempstead Water Mill: Description, history and pictures.
Lewis, Paul; and Lewis, Angela: Hempstead Water Mill.
[Norwich, Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society, in "Journal of the Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society", vol.III, no.2, 1982
Hempstead Post Mill: Map.

Gazetteers and Directories

Hempstead by Holt is in Holt hundred.

Land and Property

Macro and Withers: Report of an appeal case [about tithes] between dowager Lady Suffield and the parish-officers of Hempstead in Norfolk, which was tried at Walsingham quarter-sessions, July 25, 1823.
[Holt, J. Shalders, 1824]

Maps

Parish outline and location.: See Parish Map for Erpingham Registration District, 1836
Modern and Historical Maps: Maps of the parish and nearby places.

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Hempstead by Holt became part of the Erpingham Union, and the workhouses were at Gimingham and Sheringham. These were replaced by a new workhouse at West Beckham in 1850.

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