Norfolk: Hevingham

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Hevingham is about 3 miles S. of Aylsham.
See also Haveringland.

Biography

Benton, Evan O.: Man and Boy in a Norfolk Village.
About a farmer's son and his way of life in and around Hevingham in the early 1900s.
[Weston Longville, Roy Benton, 1981]

Cemeteries

See Norfolk Parish Links: Cemeteries

Census

Church Directories

In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Ingworth, in the archdeaconry of Norwich.
The parish church is dedicated to St Botolph in some records and to St Mary the Virgin and St Botolph in others.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of St Mary the Virgin and St Botolph: Services, etc.
Church of St Botolph: Picture of the church.

Church Records

Parish Register Transcripts: Baptisms, Banns, Marriages and Burials.
Parish Register Transcripts: Baptisms 1712-1900, Banns 1754-1900, Marriages 1654-1900 and Burials 1654-1900.
[Parish Register Transcription Society, Dart Series, 2000?]
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), Hevingham was in Aylsham Registration District.

Description and Travel

Marsham, A.F.: A history of Hevingham: "The village by the low meadows at the water".
Originally in the "Baconsthorpe and District Parish Magazine", 1935-1943.
[Typescript in Norwich Local Studies Library, Hevingham, 1970s]
Hevingham Smock Mill: Description, history and map.

Gazetteers and Directories

Hevingham is in South Erpingham hundred.

History

Campbell, Bruce M.S.: The complexity of manorial structure in medieval Norfolk: a case study.
[Norfolk, Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, in "Norfolk Archaeology", vol.39, 1986]
Campbell, Bruce M.S.: Medieval Manorial Structure.
[ISBN 0903101602, in "An historical atlas of Norfolk", edited by Peter Wade-Martins, 1994]

Land and Property

The Marsham Arms Public House: History and pictures.
Great Britain. Inclosure Commissioners: Statement of claims: Hevingham (62) and Marsham (57).
Drawn up in pursuance of the Act of Inclosure, 1799.
[1799]
Great Britain: Statute: Hevingham and Marsham Inclosure Act, 1799.
An act for dividing, allotting, and enclosing, the open and common fields, half year or shack lands, warrens or reputed warrens, commons, heaths, commonable lands, and waste grounds, within the parishes of Hevingham and Marsham, in the county of Norfolk; and for extinguishing all rights of sheepwalk, shackage, and common, in, over, and upon, all the lands and grounds within the said parishes.
[1799]

Maps

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

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Hevingham became part of the Aylsham Union, and the workhouses were at Buxton and Oulton. These were replaced by a new workhouse at Aylsham in 1849.
Buxton and other parishes poor relief and employment act, 1806.
See Brampton.

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 118 136 610

1811 126 136 548

1821 154 159 744

1831 188 192 931

1841 187 -- 893

1851 180 -- 842

Year Inhabited
Houses Families Population

1861 188 -- 838

1871 183 183 759

1881 180 180 764

1891 168 169 760

1901 172 173 746

1911 -- 178 727

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.

1851 Census: "The decrease of population in the Parishes of Hevingham and Stratton-Strawless since 1841, is considered to be the result of emigration."
1901 Census: "Including Buxton Heath, and Westgate Street."

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