Place:Barford, Norfolk, England

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Barford is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, situated some 4 miles (6 km) north of Wymondham and 8 miles (13 km) west of Norwich.

The civil parish has an area of 4.38 km2 and in the 2001 UK census had a population of 508 in 201 households, the population increasing to 547 at the 2011 UK census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the South Norfolk District.

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

"BARFORD, a parish in Forehoe [registration] district, Norfolk; on the river Yare, 5 miles NNW of Wymondham [railway] station, and 9 W of Norwich. Post Town: Barnham-Broom under Wymondham. Acres: 1,052. Real property: £22,506. Population: 419. Houses: 94. The property is sub-divided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £288. Patron: Skinner Turner, Esq. The church is good; and there are two Methodist chapels."

Research Tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Barford. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
• A map illustrating the individual parishes of Forehoe 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.