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- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
Hempton is a village and a civil parish in Norfolk, England. The village is 0.8 miles (1.3 km) southwest of Fakenham and 33.9 miles (54.6 km) northwest of Norwich. The village straddles the A1065 road between Fakenham and Swaffham. The nearest railway station is at Sheringham for the Bittern Line which runs between Sheringham, Cromer and Norwich.
The area of the parish is 2.15 km2 (0.83 sq mi) and the population in the 2011 UK census was 505.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Hempton from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1871-72:
- "HEMPTON, a village and a parish in Walsingham [registration] district, Norfolk. The village stands on the river Wensum, 1/2 a mile S of Fakenham [railway] station; is suburban to Fakenham; had an Augustinian priory, of the time of Henry I.; was once a market town; and has cattle fairs on Whit-Tuesday, the 1st Wednesday of Sept., and 22 Nov. The parish comprises 560 acres. Real property: £1,566. Population: 459. Houses: 97. The manor belongs to the Marquis of Townshend. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value: not reported. Patron: the Crown. The church is recent."
Research Tips
- GENUKI provides a list of references for Hempton. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
- GENUKI also supplies a map illustrating the individual parishes of Gallow 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.
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