Place:Banham, Norfolk, England

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Banham is a village and civil parish in Norfolk, England. The village is about 7 miles (11 km) north of Diss, 12 miles (19 km) east of Thetford and 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Norwich. The Church of England parish church is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin and ranked as a Grade I listed building.

The civil parish has an area of 16.17 km2 and in the 2001 census had a population of 1,443 in 573 households, including, for census purposes, the neighbouring village of Fersfield. This increased to a population of 1,481 in 603 households at the 2011 UK census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the District of Breckland.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Banham from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1871-72:

"BANHAM, a parish and a [registration] subdistrict, in the [registration] district of Guiltcross, Norfolk. The parish lies 2½ miles SW of New Buckenham, and 4 E of Eccles Road [railway] station; and has a post office under Attleborough. Acres: 3,963. Real property: £8,131. Population: 1,163. Houses: 253. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £1,000. Patron: the Lord Chancellor. The church is good; and there are two Methodist chapels, a national school, and charities, £136."

Research Tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Banham. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
• GENUKI also supplies a map illustrating the individual parishes of Guiltcross Hundred. Parishes labelled with letters should be identifiable from the Ordnance Survey Map of 1900.
• 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.