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- source: Family History Library Catalog
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Buckenham-near-Tofts from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "BUCKENHAM-NEAR-TOFTS, or Buckenham-Parva, a parish in Swaffham [registration] district, Norfolk; on the river Wissey, 6 miles NE of Brandon [railway] station, and 6 SW by W of Watton. Post Town: Tottington, under Thetford. Acres: 931. Real property: £300. Population: 60. Houses: 12. The property is all in one estate. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value: not reported. Patron: the Rev. T. Newman. There is no church."
There is no article on Buckenham-near-Tofts in Wikipedia, but it appears in their list of "lost settlements" of Norfolk. It was part of an area acquired by the British Army as a training area during World War II and remains in their hands to the present. See the Stanford Training Area article in Wikipedia.
A Vision of Britain through Time states that Buckenham Tofts is the preferred name of the hamlet.
Research Tips
- GENUKI provides a list of references for Buckenham Tofts. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
- 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
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