Norfolk: Genealogy: Towns and Parishes: Boughton (original) (raw)

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Boughton is about 9 miles southwest of Swaffham.
See also Beighton.

Cemeteries

See Norfolk Parish Links: Cemeteries

Census

• 1891: Surname List See also Norfolk Parish Links: Censuses

Church Directories

• In 1883 the parish was in theDeanery of Fincham, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
  It could have been in a different deanery or archdeaconry both before and after this date.
• The parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
• Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church Records

Farrow, Charles W.

Boughton (Church of England) Parish Registers, 1691-1837; transcribed and indexed.
[Norwich, Norfolk and Norwich Genealogical Society, the parish registers of Norfolk, monograph series: 12, 1986]

See also Norfolk Parish Links: Church Records

Civil Registration

For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1930 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), Boughton was inDownham Registration District.

See also Norfolk Parish Links: Civil Registration

Description and Travel

Wissey Valley Web Pages

Including Wereham, Wretton, West Dereham, Boughton, Stoke Ferry and Whittington in the Wissey Valley in West Norfolk.

See also Norfolk Parish Links: Description and Travel

Directories

• 1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
• 1854: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
• 1883: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk See also Norfolk Parish Links: Directories

Historical Geography

Boughton is in Clackclose Hundred.

Parish outline and location.

See Parish Map for Clackclose Hundred

Description of Clackclose Hundred

1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk

History

Coates, Doris E

The Story of Boughton.
[ISBN 0950687111, Harpsden Press, 1982]

Land and Property

Great Britain. Inclosure Commissioners

Statement of Claims (18): Boughton.
Drawn up in pursuance of the Act of Inclosure, 1801.
[1801]

Great Britain: Statute

Boughton Inclosure Act, 1801.
An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing the common fields, half year or shack lands, commonable grounds, commons, and waste lands, within the parish of Boughton, in the county of Norfolk.
[1801]

See also Norfolk Parish Links: Land and Property

Maps

Modern and Historical Maps

Maps of the parish.

Military Records

See Norfolk Parish Links: Military Records

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

• After 1834 Boughton became part of theDownham Union, and the workhouse was at Downham Market.

Voting Registers

See Norfolk Parish Links: Voting Registers

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