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Stow Bardolph
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"STOW-BARDOLPH, a small pleasant village, on the Lynn road, 2 miles N. by E. of Downham, has in its parish 1,046 inhabitants, and 5,695 acres, . . . About 2 miles W.N.W. of the village, is the hamlet of STOW-BRIDGE, on the river Ouse, where there is a FAIR for the sale of horses, cows, &c., . . . Sir Thos. Hare, Bart., owns a great part of the soil, and is lord of the manors, which were purchased in 1553, by his ancestor, Sir Nicholas Hare, . . . He resides at STOW HALL, a stately mansion, . . . built in 1589, at the cost of £40,000, by Nicholas Hare, Esq., . . . the CHURCH, (Holy Trinity,) which has a nave, . . . The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the King's Book at £6 6s. 8d., and in 1831 at £400, with the rectory of Wimbotsham annexed to it, in the incumbency of the Rev. John Clavering. Sir Thos. Hare is the patron, and also impropriator of the great tithes of this parish, which were commuted in 1845. Here are six Almshouses, built by Sir Ralph Hare, Kt., who endowed them, in 1622, with 86A. 3R. of land, now let for £80 per annum; . . . A little south of the church, is Pool House, an ancient building of flint and brick, supposed to have been a chapel or hermitage. " [William White History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk (1845) - Transcription copyright © Pat Newby]
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Stow Bardolph includes the hamlets of Stow Bridge (or Stowbridge) and Barroway Drove.
See also Stow Bedon.
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- Church of Holy Trinity
- Monuments in the Hare Chapel.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Cemeteries
- 1841
- 1841, 1861 and 1871: Surname Lists
- 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 of Stow Bardolph is dedicated to Holy Trinity.
The church at Stow Bridge is dedicated to St Peter.
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Description and pictures.
- Dashwood, George Henry
- Memoranda, accompanied with figures, of mural paintings, lately detected in the Church of Stow-Bardolph.
[Norwich, Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, in "Norfolk Archaeology", vol.3, 1852]
- Church of St Peter at Stow Bridge
- Description and pictures.
- Stow Bridge Methodist Church, at the Church of St Peter.
- Minister, services, picture, etc.
Follow the link to the home page, then search for the church.
- Archdeacon's Transcripts or Bishop's Transcripts
- Marriages 1725-1812 (this is a link to an archived copy)
- 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), Stow Bardolph was in Downham Registration District.
- Stow Bardolph
- Description, pictures, etc.
- Pictures of Stow Bardolph
- Old postcards and new photographs.
- Barroway Drove Community Website
- History, school, people, pictures, etc.
- 1831: Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England
- 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)
- 1908: Kelly's Directory of Norfolk
- 1933: Kelly's Directory of Norfolk
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Directories
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Stow Bardolph to another place.
Stow Bardolph 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
- Drainage
- See Stoke Ferry and Wimbotsham
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF628057 (Lat/Lon: 52.624363, 0.403574), Stow Bardolph 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 for Wimbotsham and East Stow Bardolph
- World Wars 1 and 2.
- After 1834 Stow Bardolph became part of the Downham Union, and the workhouse was at Downham Market.
- Dashwood, George Henry
- Extracts from wills, preserved in the muniment room at Stow Bardolph.
[Norwich, Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, in "Norfolk Archaeology", vol.2, 1849]