Place:Bridgham, Norfolk, England

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Bridgham is a village and and civil parish in Norfolk, England. It covers an area of 11.06 km2 (4.27 sq mi) and had a population of 328 in 130 households at the 2001 UK census, increasing to a population of 335 at the 2011 UK census. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the Breckland District.

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

"BRIDGHAM, a parish in Guiltcross [registration] district, Norfolk; on the Little Ouse river, near the Norfolk railway, 2½ miles SW of Harling-Road station, and 6 E by N of Thetford. It has a post office under Thetford. Acres: 2,692. Real property: £1,990. Population: 328. Houses: 72. The property is divided among three. The manor belongs to Sir J. G. Sebright, Bart. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £388. Patron: the Lord Chancellor. The church has a Norman porch, and is good. There is a Wesleyan chapel."

Research Tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Bridgham. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
• GENUKI also supplies a map illustrating the individual parishes of Shropham 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.