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"A new parish in Heigham parish (Trinity) was consecrated in 1861; its length inside is 130 feet, and it is seated to accommodate 1,120 persons; it is in the Decorated style of architecture, and has nave, chancel, and transepts, a tower containing 1 bell, and handsome slate spire." [The Post Office Directory of Norfolk & Suffolk (1865) - Transcription copyright © Brian Randell]
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Heigham is about 1 mile W. of Norwich.
It is a hamlet of the city, and more information may be found in the Norwich records.
See also Potter Heigham.
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- 1891: Surname List - 13 linked pages (this is a link to an archived copy)
- 1891: Surname List - Heigham Workhouse (this is a link to an archived copy)
- In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Humbleyard, 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 Thomas.
For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1930 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), Heigham was in Norwich Registration District.
- See Norwich for Kelly's 1883 Directory.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Heigham to another place.
Heigham is in the County of the City of Norwich.
- Parish outline and location.
- See Parish Map for the County of the City of Norwich
- Rye, Walter
- History of the parish of Heigham in the city of Norwich.
[Norwich, Roberts, 1919, Rye's monographs of Norwich hamlets:4]
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TG221084 (Lat/Lon: 52.628244, 1.279907), Heigham 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.
- After 1834 Heigham became part of the Norwich Incorporation, and the workhouse was at Norwich.