Place:Raveningham, Norfolk, England

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Raveningham (pronounced "Ran-ing'm") is a small village and civil parish in Norfolk, England, about 13 miles (21 km) southeast of Norwich. It covers an area of 1,990 acres (810 ha) and had a population of 157 in 61 households at the 2001 UK census, the population increasing to 162 at the 2011 UK census.

Raveningham is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as one of the settlements in Clavering Hundred.

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

"RAVENINGHAM, a parish, with a scattered village, in Loddon [registration] district, Norfolk; 3¾ miles S E of Loddon, and 3¾ N by W of Beccles [railway] station. Post-town: Loddon, under Norwich. Acres: 2,415. Real property: £3,924. Population: 264. Houses: 58. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to Sir H. Bacon, Bart. [Raveningham] Hall is occupied by Peirson, Esq. A college, for a master and eight secular priests, was founded here, in 1350, by Sir John de Norwich; went, at the dissolution, to Sir. A. Derry; and passed to the Bacon family, of whom were Friar Bacon, Lord Keeper Bacon, and Lord Chancellor Bacon. The living is a [perpetual] curacy in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £70. Patron: Sir H. Bacon, Bart. The church is good."

Research Tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Raveningham. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
• A map illustrating the individual parishes of Clavering Hundred may be useful. 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.