Norfolk: Kenninghall

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Kenninghall is about 6 miles N.W. of Diss.

Cemeteries

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Census

Guiltcross Union Workhouse was in this parish.
1881: Guiltcross Union Workhouse
1891: Surname List

Church Directories

In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Rockland, 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 Mary.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of St Mary: Description and pictures.
Church of St Mary: Services, etc.

Church Records

Marriages: These are not included in Boyd's Marriage Index or Phillimore's Marriage Registers.
Folland, Heywood Gerard Benson: Churchwardens' Accounts: Kenninghall parish small book.
[1960s]

Civil Registration

For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1902 (and for the censuses of 1851 to 1901), Kenninghall was in Guiltcross Registration District.

This district was abolished on 1st April 1902 and, from then until 1930, Kenninghall was in Wayland Registration District for civil registration.

Description and Travel

Kenninghall Banham Road Post Mill: Description and history.
Kenninghall Banham Road Smock Mill: Description, history and map.
Kenninghall Banham Road Tower Mill: Description, history and picture.
Kenninghall Chimney Post Mill: Description, history and picture.
Manning, Mary: Chimney Mill House, Kenninghall.
[Norwich, Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society, in "Journal of the Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society", vol.6, no.3, 1998]
Kenninghall Fersfield Road Tower Mill: Description and history.
Kenninghall Lopham Road Smock Mill: Description, history and map.
Kenninghall Mill Lane Post Mill: Description, history and pictures.
Kenninghall Mill Lane Tower Mill: Description, history and pictures.
Kenninghall Steam Mill: Description.

Directories

Historical Geography

Kenninghall is in Guiltcross Hundred.

Parish outline and location.: See Parish Map for Guiltcross Hundred
Description of Guiltcross Hundred: 1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk

History

Manning, Charles Robertson: Kenninghall.
[Norwich, Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, in "Norfolk Archaeology", vol.7, 1872]
Serpell, Estelle: The story of Kenninghall: traffic, happenings and memories over the last thousand years.
[Kenninghall, 1999]
Serpell, Michael Friend: Kenninghall history and St Mary's Church.
[Attleborough, Breckland Print, 1980s]

Land and Property

Howlett, Richard: The household accounts of Kenninghall Palace in the year 1525.
[Norwich, Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, in "Norfolk Archaeology", vol.15, 1904]

Maps

Modern and Historical Maps: Maps of the parish.

Military Records

Roll of Honour: World Wars 1 and 2.

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Kenninghall became part of the Guiltcross Union, and the workhouse was in this parish.

Guiltcross Union: Parishes in the union, their arrangements for the poor before 1834, etc.
Guiltcross Union and Workhouse: Description from White's Directory of Norfolk, 1845.
Guiltcross Union and Workhouse: Description and pictures.

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	123	202	1052
1811	165	226	1102
1821	176	258	1273
1831	175	271	1251
1841	276	--	1389
1851	292	--	1648

Year	Inhabited Houses	Families	Population
1861	280	--	1405
1871	279	280	1380
1881	253	266	1231
1891	244	245	1121
1901	237	238	976
1911	--	233	1173

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.

1841 and 1851 Censuses: "The Return for Kenninghall Parish includes 112 persons in 1841, and 276 in 1851, in the Guiltcross Union Workhouse."
1861 Census: "GUILTCROSS. The decrease of population in most of the parishes of this District is attributed partly to the migration of labourers to towns and manufacturing districts. In some parishes it has also been consequent upon the failure of hand-loom hemp-cloth weaving."
1901 Census: "Including Dam Green, Edge Green, Kenninghall Heath, and Park Common."
1911 Census: "The large increase in the population of Kenninghall Civil Parish is attributed mainly to the opening, since 1901, of the Eastern Counties [text missing from photocopy]." This was probably the Eastern Counties Inebriate Reformatory, previously the Guiltcross workhouse.
1911 Census: Out of the population of 1173, 285 were in a large establishment or institution. This was probably the Eastern Counties Inebriate Reformatory.

Voting Registers

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