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"BEECHAMWELL is a village, with several neat cottages, five miles W.S.W. of Swaffham, having in its parish 246 inhabitants, and 4,100 acres of land, of which 2,000 form a healthy rabbit warren, adjoining the Saxon foss and rampart, extending from Eastmore to Narborough. The Hon. Charles Spencer Cowper is owner of the soil, and lord of the manor, and resides occasionally at the Hall, a small mansion near the village; but generally at Sandringham Hall. Here are two CHURCHES, but that dedicated to All Saints is in ruins, and the rectory, valued in the King's Book at £6 13s. 4d., is consolidated with Shingham, in the gift of the Crown, and incumbency of the Rev. Charles Campbell. Here was likewise a church dedicated to St. John, but it was taken down many years ago, and its benefice consolidated with St. Mary's, a small but neat structure, at the east end of the village, covered with thatch, and having a tower, round at the base, and octangular above." [William White, History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk (1845) - Transcription copyright © Pat Newby]
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The name may also be spelled Beachamwell.
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- 1891: Surname List (this is a link to an archived copy)
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Censuses
- In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery 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 St Mary.
There were also churches dedicated to All Saints and St John.
- Church of St Mary
- Services, events, etc.
- Church of St Mary
- Description and pictures.
- Church of St Mary
- Services, address, etc.
- Church of All Saints
- Description and pictures of the ruins.
- Church of St John
- Description and pictures of the ruins.
- Tricker, Roy
- Beechamwell Churches: A brief guide.
[Holt, Norfolk Churches Trust, 1980s]
- Marriages
- These are not included in Boyd's Marriage Index or Phillimore's Marriage Registers.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Church Records
For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1930 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), Beechamwell was in Swaffham Registration District.
- Barton Bendish, Beachamwell, Shingham, Boughton and Wereham.
- News, events, history, churches, pictures, etc.
- Beachamwell (this is a link to an archived copy)
- Description, history and pictures.
- Beechamwell Post Mill
- Description and history.
- Beechamwell Rainoll's Post Mill
- Description and history.
- 1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
- 1854: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk (this is a link to an archived copy)
- 1883: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
- 1883: Kelly's Directory for Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk (this is a link to an archived copy)
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Directories
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Beechamwell to another place.
Beechamwell 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
- Beechamwell Hall
- Picture of the new hall.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF751053 (Lat/Lon: 52.617589, 0.585791), Beechamwell which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Roll of Honour
- World War 1.
- After 1834 Beechamwell became part of the Swaffham Union, and the workhouse was at Swaffham.
These figures are from the population tables which were produced after the 10-yearly national censuses. The "Families" heading includes families and single occupiers.
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There may be more people living in detached parts of the parish (if there were any) and, if so, the number may or may not be included in the figures above. It is quite difficult to be sure from the population tables.