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"BILNEY (EAST), 5 miles N.W. by N. of East Dereham, is a straggling village and parish, with 41 houses, 187 souls, and 532a. 3r. 11p. of land, mostly the property of Jno. Collison, and Wm. Pearce, Esqrs. The Church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a rectory, valued in the King's book at £5 14s. 2d., augmented with £200 Queen Anne's Bounty, and a like sum raised by subscriptions. J. Collison, Esq., of Bilney Hall, is patron, and the Rev. H. Collison, M.A., incumbent, who has a handsome rectory house, built in 1840. The tithes are commuted for £112. The Rev. Thos. Bilney, a learned divine, burnt at Norwich, in 1531, and the Rev. A. Perne, D.D., Dean of Ely, and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge, were both natives of this parish." [William White, History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk (1854) - Transcription copyright © the late A.J. Carter]
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East Bilney is about 7 miles S. of Fakenham.
See also West Bilney, which is about 15 miles to the west.
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- Mid-Norfolk Family History Society
- The Monumental Inscriptions of the Church and Churchyard of St Mary The Virgin, East Bilney, Norfolk.
[Mid-Norfolk Family History Society, 1995]
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Cemeteries
- 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 Brisley, in the archdeaconry of Norwich.
It could have been in a different deanery or archdeaconry both before and after this date. - The parish church is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.
- Mid-Norfolk Family History Society
- The Parish Registers of St Mary the Virgin, East Bilney, Norfolk.
Baptisms 1714-1902; Banns 1757-1799; Marriages 1714-1904; Burials 1713-1911.
[Mid-Norfolk Family History Society, 1990s]
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), East Bilney was in Mitford and Launditch Registration District.
- 1850: Hunt's Directory of East Norfolk with Part of Suffolk
- 1854: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk (this is a link to an archived copy)
- 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 East Bilney to another place.
East Bilney is in Launditch Hundred.
- Parish outline and location.
- See Parish Map for Launditch Hundred
- Description of Launditch Hundred
- 1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
- Inclosure
- See Gressenhall.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF953193 (Lat/Lon: 52.735902, 0.891137), East Bilney which are provided by:
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- 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.)
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- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
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- Bilney
- See Norfolk People and Families
- After 1834 East Bilney became part of the Mitford and Launditch Union, and the workhouse was at Gressenhall.