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Name | East Harling |
Alt names | Herlinga | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 190 | | Harling Road | source: settlement in parish |
Type | Parish (ancient), Civil parish |
Coordinates | 52.433°N 0.917°E |
Located in | Norfolk, England ( - 1935) |
See also | Guiltcross Hundred, Norfolk, England | hundred in which it was located | | Guiltcross Rural, Norfolk, England | rural district 1894-1902 | | Thetford Rural, Norfolk, England | rural district 1902-1935 | | Harling, Norfolk, England | civil parish into which it was merged in 1935 |
- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
East Harling is a village in Norfolk, England. The village now forms the principal settlement in the civil parish of Harling, but until 1935 it was a separate civil parish. It is located some 8 miles (13 km) east of the town of Thetford and 25 miles (40 km) southwest of the city of Norwich.
The village is served by Harling Road railway station, which is situated 2 miles (3 km) to the north.
From 1808 to 1814 East Harling hosted a station in the shutter telegraph chain which connected the Admiralty in London to its naval ships in the port of Great Yarmouth.
Research Tips
- GENUKI provides a list of references for East Harling. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
- GENUKI also supplies a map illustrating the individual parishes of Guiltcross 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.
Categories: Norfolk, England | East Harling, Norfolk, England | Guiltcross Hundred, Norfolk, England | Guiltcross Rural, Norfolk, England | Thetford Rural, Norfolk, England | Harling, Norfolk, England
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