Norfolk: Topcroft

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Modern and Historical Maps of this Parish.

Topcroft is about 5 miles W.N.W. of Bungay (which is in Suffolk).

Census

1891: Surname List

Church Directories

The parish is in the Deanery of Brooke, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
The parish church is dedicated to St Margaret.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of St Margaret: Services, location, etc.
Church of St Margaret: Description, history and pictures.
Hook, David, and Tricker, Roy: The Hempnall Group of Churches.
Bedingham St Andrew; Fritton St Catherine; Hardwick St Margaret; Hempnall St Margaret; Morningthorpe St John the Baptist; Shelton St Mary; Topcroft St Margaret; Woodton All Saints.
[Hempnall, Hempnall Group of Churches, 1987]

Church Records

Marriages 1557-1813: 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), Topcroft was in Loddon and Clavering Registration District.

Description and Travel

Lykowski, Catrina: Topcroft Village.
(The village, and the people living there at the start of the new millennium).
[The Topcroft Millennium Book Group, 1999]
Topcroft Mill: Description, history and pictures.

Gazetteers and Directories

Topcroft is in Loddon hundred.

Land and Property

Inclosure: See Denton.

Maps

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

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Topcroft became part of the Loddon and Clavering Union, and the workhouse was at Heckingham.

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