Binham St Mary
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1813 to 1880 Baptism Project Binham St Mary |
Baptisms 1813 to 1880
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The parish of Binham lies in northern Norfolk about 3
miles from its northern North Sea coast and 6 miles west of the market
town of Holt. Binham is dominated by its ruins of its Benedictine Abbey
which occupies most of the northwestern edge of the village and is today
a major tourist attraction. Binham briefly flirted with market town status
but that soon lapsed and Binham became one of a number of nucleated settlements
dotted at regular intervals across a largely arable farming area of Norfolk.
The rather open and flat terrain is only broken by the streams which merge
to form the River Stiffkey and the village sits on the southern banks
of one of these streams, it forming a shallow valley. Little has changed
for the local economy, despite the tourism, and arable farming still dominates
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| Two standard 800 entry register books cover the period of this transcript, the latter one has the last 4 years and runs onwards to completion in the late 20th century. The first register is filmed on Microfiche 5 & 6 but better quality images are available freely at Familysearch and also at the three main commercial providers, the second register is filmed on Microfilm MF1695 which was used to complete those four years. Despite a few clerical anomalies, one entry with missing dates, a rather chaotic period of out-of-sequence entries and some rather endearing spelling it was a relatively straightforward piece to prepare. |
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