Bergh Apton Norfolk Family History Guide

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Bergh Apton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Norfolk.

Other places in the parish include: Holverstone and Holveston.

Alternative names: Burgh Apton

Parish church: St. Peter and St. Paul

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1556
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1691

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

  • Brooke
  • Sisland
  • Kirstead
  • Hellington
  • Seething
  • Yelverton
  • Ashby St Mary
  • Rockland St Mary
  • Mundham
  • Bramerton
  • Thurton

Parish History

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

BERGH-APTON (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Loddon and Clavering, hundred of Clavering, E. division of Norfolk, 7½ miles (S. E.) from Norwich; containing 564 inhabitants. It comprises 1938a. 3r. 21p.; and was formerly two parishes, Bergh and Apton.

The living is a rectory, to which a mediety of the rectory of Holveston is annexed, valued in the king’s books at £13. 6. 8., and in the gift of the Earl of Abergavenny: the tithes have been commuted for £585, and the glebe comprises 48 acres, with a handsome house attached. The church, situated on an eminence, is a neat cruciform structure, enlarged in 1838.

There is a town estate, consisting of 60 acres, which lets for £80, applied to general purposes; also a poor’s estate, comprising 23 acres, which lets for £26 per annum.

A church existed at Apton, dedicated to St. Martin, but there are no remains of it.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Norfolk, Burgh-Apton – Cemeteries ( 3 )
Berghapton – cemetery records

Monumental inscriptions of Bergh Apton

Monumental inscriptions, Parish Churchyard, Bergh Apton, Norfolk, England
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. British Mission

England, Norfolk, Burgh-Apton – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Burgh-Apton, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office

England, Norfolk, Burgh-Apton – Church records ( 4 )
Archdeacons transcripts
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Burgh-Apton (Norfolk); Norfolk and Norwich Record Office (Norwich, England)

Churchwardens accounts, 1660-1858
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Burgh-Apton (Norfolk)

Parish register transcripts, 1561-1812
Author: Church of England. St. Mary and St. Botolph’s Church (Shottesham, Norfolk)

Parish registers for Burgh-Apton, 1556-1918
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Burgh-Apton (Norfolk); Norfolk and Norwich Record Office (Norwich, England)

England, Norfolk, Burgh-Apton – Manors – Court records ( 2 )
Manorial court rolls, 1651-1722
Author: Manor of Bergh-cum-Apton. Court (Norfolk)

Manorial court rolls, 1750-1905
Author: Manor of Washingford. Court (Norfolk)

England, Norfolk, Burgh-Apton – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Parish poor law records, 1779-1836
Author: Burgh-Apton (Norfolk)

England, Norfolk, Burgh-Apton – Schools ( 1 )
Log books and admission registers of closed schools, Burgh-Apton, 1883-1927
Author: Burgh-Apton School (Burgh-Apton, Norfolk)

Administration

  • County: Norfolk
  • Civil Registration District: Loddon
  • Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Norfolk
  • Diocese: Norwich
  • Rural Deanery: Brooke
  • Poor Law Union: Henstead
  • Hundred: Clavering (Norfolk)
  • Province: Canterbury