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Norfolk: Ranworth

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Ranworth is about 10 miles E.N.E.of Norwich.
It is also known as Ranworth with Panxworth.
See also Panxworth.

Cemeteries

See Norfolk Parish Links: Cemeteries

Census

See also Norfolk Parish Links: Censuses

Church Directories

Church History

The Church of St Helen has a famous 15th century painted rood screen.
Church of St Helen
Description and pictures.
Everard, E.D.
Visitor's Guide to Ranworth Church.
[Ranworth, The Church, 1970s]
Mockridge, Patricia
The Parish Church of St Helen's, Ranworth: the cathedral of the broads.
[Ranworth, The Church, 2003]
 
Church of St Helen
Description, pictures, etc of the screen.
Hart, Richard
Description of the Engraving from the Ranworth Screen.
[Norwich, Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, in "Norfolk Archaeology", vol.1, 1847]
Morant, Alfred W.; and Le Strange, John
Notices of the Church at Ranworth.
[Norwich, Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, in "Miscellaneous Papers", 1867]
Strange, Edward F.
The Rood-Screen of Ranworth Church.
[Norwich, Jarrold, 1902]
Winter, C.J.W
Illustrations of the Rood-Screen at Ranworth.
[Norwich, Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, in "Miscellaneous Papers", 1867]
 
Kellehar, Cecil
The Ranworth Story: as told by Brother Pacificus in Son et Lumiere.
[ISBN 0952570424, Salhouse, David Benham Print and Publishing, 1996]

Church Records

Parish Register Transcripts
Baptisms 1813-1880
Marriages 1559-1812
See Phillimore's Marriage Registers, Volume 3.
Marriages
These are included in Boyd's Marriage Index.
Dinner at the House of Matthias Kerrison
This was recorded in the parish register.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Church Records

Civil Registration

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

See also Norfolk Parish Links: Civil Registration

Description and Travel

Ranworth
Description and pictures.
Norfolk Naturalists Trust
Ranworth Nature Reserve.
[Norwich, Norfolk Naturalist Trust, 1990s]
Ranworth, and Malthouse Broad
Description, pictures, etc.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Description and Travel

Directories

See also Norfolk Parish Links: Directories

Historical Geography

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

History

Enraght, H.J.
Ranworth: a village and church on the Broads.
[Norwich, 1988]

Land and Property

See Norfolk Parish Links: Land and Property

Maps

Modern and Historical Maps
Maps of the parish.

Military Records

See Norfolk Parish Links: Military Records

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

Voting Registers

See Norfolk Parish Links: Voting Registers

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January 2008