Norfolk: Holme Hale

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Holme Hale is about 5 miles S.E. of Swaffham.
The name may also be found as Holm Hale and Home Hale.
See also Holme next the sea and Holme next Runcton (Runcton Holme).

Cemeteries

Mid-Norfolk Family History Society: Memorial Inscriptions for the Church of St Andrew.
Including a plan of the church and churchyard, inscriptions, and index.
[Mid Norfolk FHS, 2000?]

Census

Church Directories

In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Cranwich, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
The parish church is dedicated to St Andrew.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of St Andrew: Location, etc.
Church of St Andrew: Description and pictures.
Broke, R.S.: Guide to the Church of St Andrew, Holme Hale.
[Holme Hale, The Church, Pickenham Print, 1980s]

Church Records

Parish Register Transcripts: Baptisms and Burials.
Marriages 1539-1837: See Phillimore's Marriage Registers, Volume 5.
Marriages: These are included in Boyd's Marriage Index.

Civil Registration

For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1930 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), Holme Hale was in Swaffham Registration District.

Description and Travel

Holme Hale Post Mill: Description and history.
Holme Hale Smock Mill: Description.

Directories

Historical Geography

Holme Hale is in South Greenhoe hundred.

History

Carthew, George Alfred: A history, topographical, archaeological, genealogical, and biographical, of the parishes of West and East Bradenham, with those of Necton and Holme Hale, in the county of Norfolk, from the Public Records, Court Rolls, Wills, Parish Registers, and private sources.
[Norwich, Agas H. Goose, 1883]
Hunt, Alec (edited by Chris Dawes): The Holme Hale Story.
[Holme Hale, c1985]

Land and Property

Great Britain. Inclosure Commissioners: Statement of claims (62): Holme Hale and West Bradenham.
Drawn up in pursuance of the Act of Inclosure, 1801.
[1801]
Great Britain: statute: Holme Hale and West Bradenham Inclosure act, 1801.
An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing the whole year inclosures, open fields, commonable grounds, commons, and waste lands, within the parishes of Holme Hale and West Bradenham, in the county of Norfolk.
[An independently printed edition of the act, 1801]

Maps

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

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Holme Hale became part of the Swaffham Union, and the workhouse was at Swaffham.

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   68 63 348

1811   71 81 382

1821   57 87 422

1831   92 95 447

1841 102 -- 488

1851 103 -- 524

Year   Inhabited
Houses Families Population

1861 109   -- 464

1871 105 107 437

1881   92   95 411

1891   93   93 374

1901   74   74 311

1911   --   82 301

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.

1861 Census: "The decrease of population in Great Cressingham, Holme-Hale, and Igborough is attributed to labourers having left, owing to the lowness of wages, &c."

Voting Registers

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