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| Name | Barsham |
| Type | Civil parish |
| Coordinates | 52.872°N 0.833°E |
| Located in | Norfolk, England (1935 - ) |
| See also | Gallow Hundred, Norfolk, England | hundred in which it was located | | East Barsham, Norfolk, England | parish from which the parish was formed in 1935 | | West Barsham, Norfolk, England | parish from which the parish was formed in 1935 | | North Barsham, Norfolk, England | parish from which the parish was formed in 1935 | | Houghton St. Giles, Norfolk, England | parish from which the parish was formed in 1935 | | Erpingham Rural, Norfolk, England | rural district in which it was located 1935-1974 | | North Norfolk District, Norfolk, England | district municipality covering the area since 1974 |
- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
Barsham is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, and includes the villages of East Barsham, North Barsham, West Barsham and Houghton St. Giles. The villages are all situated within 2 miles of each other, about 3 miles north of the town of Fakenham and 28 miles northwest of the city of Norwich. The headwaters of the River Stiffkey flow through both East and North Barsham and Houghton St Giles.
Originally all four villages had their own parishes, but these were merged to create a single civil parish in 1935. This parish has an area of 7½ square miles and in the 2001 UK census had a population of 253 in 115 households, the population reducing to 232 at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the District of North Norfolk. Between 1935 and 1974 it was a civil parish in Erpingham Rural District.
The mediaeval pilgrimage centre of Walsingham lies only 1¼ miles north of Houghton St Giles, and the Roman Catholic National Shrine of Our Lady or Slipper Chapel is actually located within the civil parish of Barsham. East Barsham Manor, in the village of East Barsham, is an important work of Tudor architecture.
A Vision of Britain through Time] provides individual descriptions of East Barsham, North Barsham, West Barsham and Houghton St. Giles from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72.
Research Tips
- the Ordnance Survey map of Norfolk of 1944 shows the individual parishes in Walsingham Rural District during the period 1935-1974.
- 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.
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