Norfolk: Horning

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Modern and Historical Maps of this Parish.

Horning is about 9 miles N.E. of Norwich.
See also Honing and Horningtoft.

Cemeteries

The Monumental Inscriptions in the Hundred of Tunstead (Walter Rye).: The parishes covered include Horning.
See Ashmanhaugh

Census

Church Directories

In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Waxham, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
The parish church is dedicated to St Benedict.
The Abbey of St Benet at Holm was in this parish.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of St Benedict: Description and pictures.
Church of St Benedict: Description, history, pictures, services, etc.
St Benet's Abbey: Description, history and pictures.

Church Records

Campling, Arthur: Index of Marriages, Horning, 1558-1754.
[Norwich Local Studies Library, Handwritten document, 1930s]
Marriages: These are included in Boyd's Marriage Index.
They are not included in Phillimore's Marriage Registers.
Clergy of the Church of St Benedict: 1299-1762.

Civil Registration

For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1869 (and for the censuses in 1851 and 1861), Horning was in Tunstead and Happing Registration District.

This district was renamed on 1st January 1870 and, from then until 1930, Horning was in Smallburgh Registration District for civil registration and for the censuses of 1871 to 1901.

Description and Travel

Horning: Description and pictures.
Horning: Description, pictures and map.
Horning Parish Council: Councillors, etc.
Horning Post Mill: Description, history and map.
Horning Mill Loke Post Mill: Description, history and pictures.
Horning Steam Mill: Description and history.
Horning Neaves Drainage Mill: Pictures.
Horning St Benet's Abbey Drainage Mill: Description, history and pictures of mill and abbey ruins.
Horning St Benet's Abbey Drainage Mill: Pictures of the mill and abbey ruins.
Horning St Benet's Level Drainage Mill: Description, history and pictures.

Directories

Historical Geography

Horning is in Tunstead hundred.

History

Carrodus, Charles F.: Life in a Norfolk Village: the story of old Horning.
[Soman-Wherry, 1949]
Carrodus, Charles F.: A Norfolk village in war time, 1939-1945.
[Printed by H. Clarke and Co., London, 1940s]
Garbutt, E.: Horning, Norfolk.
[1978]
McGoun, Barbara: A Slice of Horning Life: 1836-1946.
[ISBN 0953157806, Horning, 1997]

Land and Property

See Norfolk Parish Links: Land and Property

Maps

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

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

In 1785 Horning became part of the Tunstead and Happing Incorporation, and the workhouse was at Smallburgh.
In 1869 the incorporation became the Smallburgh Union.

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	72	81	361
1811	81	81	388
1821	91	93	440
1831	104	104	468
1841	105	---	467
1851	109	---	466

Year	Inhabited Houses	Families	Population
1861	97	---	441
1871	114	117	457
1881	106	108	435
1891	103	105	415
1901	90	95	368
1911	---	96	368

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: "TUNSTEAD. The decrease of population in most of the parishes comprised in the Tunstead District, which forms the "Tunstead and Happing Incorporation" for the support of the poor, is attributed to emigration and the migration of young persons to other parts."

Voting Registers

See Norfolk Parish Links: Voting Registers

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