Place:Needham, Norfolk, England

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Needham is a small village and civil parish in Norfolk, England. It covers an area of 4.69 km2 (1.81 sq mi) and had a population of 310 in 129 households at the 2001 census, falling marginally to 309 at the 2011 census. It is located close to the River Waveney in the South Norfolk District.

Its church, St Peter, is one of 124 existing round-tower churches in Norfolk.

h[ttp://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/5134 A Vision of Britain through Time] provides the following description of Needham from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1871-72:

"NEEDHAM, a village and a parish in Depwade [registration] district, Norfolk. The village stands on the river Waveney, at the boundary with Suffolk, 1¼ mile S W of Harleston [railway] station; and is small and scattered. The parish comprises 1,127 acres. Post-town: Scole. Real property: £2,175. Population: 395. Houses: 83. The property is much subdivided; and the manor is divided amongfive. The living is a [perpetual] curacy in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £82. Patrons: the Adair family. The church is old but good; and consists of nave and chancel, with porch and round tower."

Research Tips

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