Place:Babingley, Norfolk, England

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Babingley is a hamlet and abandoned village in Norfolk, about 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of Castle Rising and 5 1⁄2 miles (9 km) north-north-east of King's Lynn.

It was a separate parish but is now part of the civil parish of Sandringham. The modern hamlet is a small group of houses in the A149 road linking King's Lynn and Hunstanton. The site of the abandoned village is in fields west of the main road, marked by the ruin of St Felix's parish church.

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Babingley was absorbed into the parish of Sandringham in 1935. The following extract from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 is provided by A Vision of Britain through Time

"BABINGLEY, or Baburghley, a parish in Freebridge-Lynn [registration] district, Norfolk; on a rivulet of its own name, near Lynn-Deeps, 1½ mile S of Wolferton [railway] station. Post Town: Castle-Rising under Lynn. Acres: 849. Real property: £924. Population: 67. Houses: 12. The first Christian church in East Anglia was erected here; and several hills in the neighbourhood are called Christian Hills. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Sandringham, in the diocese of Norwich. The church has a nave and a tower; but its chancel is ruined."

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• GENUKI provides a list of references for Babingley. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
• A map illustrating the individual parishes of Freebridge Lynn Hundred may be useful.
• GENUKI also advises that the following lists for Norfolk are to be found in FamilySearch:

• England, Norfolk, Parish Registers (County Record Office), 1510-1997
• England, Norfolk Archdeacon's Transcripts, 1600-1812
• England, Norfolk Bishop's Transcripts, 1685-1941
• England, Norfolk Marriage Bonds, 1557-1915
• England, Norfolk Non-conformist Records, 1613-1901

• Ancestry.co.uk has the following lists as of 2018 (UK or worldwide Ancestry membership or library access required). With the exception of the index to wills these files are browsible images of the original documents. The files are separated by type and broken down into time periods (i.e., "Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812" is more than one file). The general explanatory notes are worth reading for those unfamiliar with English parish records.

• Index to wills proved in the Consistory Court of Norwich : and now preserved in the District Probate Registry at Norwich
• Norfolk, England, Bishop's Transcripts, 1579-1935
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1915
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1990
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1940

• FindMyPast is another pay site with large collection of parish records. As of October 2018 they had 20 types of Norfolk records available to browse including Land Tax Records and Electoral Registers.