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"BODNEY parish has only one house and a few cottages, on the east side of a rivulet, 7 miles S. of Swaffham. It contains 98 inhabitants, and about 2538 acres of land, all belonging to Michael Tasburgh, Esq., of Burghwallis, Yorkshire, and occupied by Mr. James Debenham. The large farm-house stands near the site of the old Hall, which was taken down many years ago, and was at one time the tranquil retreat of the nuns of Montargis, among whom Eloise Adelaide de Bourbon, daughter of the Prince of Conde, took the veil here on July 9th, 1805. The Church is a small ancient fabric, of flint and pebbles, and is a discharged rectory, valued in the King's Book at £6.7s.8d., and consolidated with Great Cressingham." [William White, History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk (1845) - Transcription copyright © Paddy Apling]
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| St Mary, Bodney, Church of England |
| St Mary, Bodney, Church of England |
| Chapel, Bodney, Primitive Methodist |
- In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Cranwich, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
- The parish church is dedicated to St Mary.
- Farrow, C.W. and Palgrave-Moore, Patrick (Ed)
- Bodney (Church of England) Parish Registers 1653-1837; transcribed and edited.
[Norwich, Norfolk and Norwich Genealogical Society, 1984] - 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), Bodney was in Swaffham Registration District.
- 1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
- 1854: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
- 1864: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
- 1883: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
- 1883: Kelly's Directory for Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Directories
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Bodney to another place.
Bodney is in South Greenhoe hundred.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TL831988 (Lat/Lon: 52.555951, 0.700035), Bodney which are provided by:
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- 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)
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- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
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- After 1834 Bodney became part of the Swaffham Union, and the workhouse was at Swaffham.