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"BOOTON, a village and parish, 6 miles S.W. by W. of Aylsham, and 1½ miles E. by S. of Reepham, has 241 souls, and 1,011 acres of land, mostly the property of Hastings Elwin, Esq., the lord of the manor, and patron of the Church, (St. Michael,) which is a discharged rectory, valued in the King's Book at £7. 12s. 6d., and now enjoyed by the Rev. Caleb Elwin, of Melton Constable. The tithes have been commuted for £294. 10s. per annum. At the enclosure, in 1811, an allotment of 20A., was awarded to the poor, for fuel." [William White, History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk (1845) - Transcription copyright © Richard Johns]
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Not all memorials may be included, even when a transcription is marked as complete, for example when stones are not legible enough to be read or photographed.
- Mid-Norfolk Family History Society
- Memorial Inscriptions of the Church and Churchyard of St Michael the Archangel Booton, and St Nicholas Brandiston.
[Mid-Norfolk Family History Society, 2009] - Church of St Michael the Archangel
- Transcriptions and photographs of gravestones in the churchyard.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Cemeteries
- In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Ingworth, in the archdeaconry of Norwich.
It could have been in a different deanery or archdeaconry both before and after this date. - The parish church is dedicated to St Michael the Archangel.
- Church of St Michael the Archangel
- Description and pictures.
- Church of St Michael the Archangel
- Description and pictures of the stained glass windows.
- Barnes, Anthony
- Church of St Michael the Archangel, Booton.
[London, Churches Conservation Trust, 2007] - Elwin, F.
- Notes on St Michael's church, Booton, Norfolk.
[Norwich, Jarrold, 1936]
- Parish Register Transcripts
- Baptisms 1813-1880
- Marriages 1560-1812
- See Phillimore's Marriage Registers, Volume 3.
- Marriages
- These are included in Boyd's Marriage Index.
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), Booton was in St Faith's Registration District.
- Gray, Lorna
- Fragments of a village life: Booton, 1900-2000.
[Booton, 2002] - Booton Post Mill
- Description, history and pictures.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Booton to another place.
Booton is in South Erpingham Hundred.
- Parish outline and location.
- See Parish Map for South Erpingham Hundred
- Description of South Erpingham Hundred
- 1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
- Great Britain: Statute
- Booton Inclosure Act, 1811.
An act for inclosing lands in the parish of Booton, in the county of Norfolk.
[1811]
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TG111227 (Lat/Lon: 52.760658, 1.127214), Booton 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
- World War 1.
- After 1834 Booton became part of the St Faith's Union, and the workhouse was at Horsham St Faith.
These figures are from the population tables which were produced after the 10-yearly national censuses. The "Families" heading includes families and single occupiers.
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There may be more people living in detached parts of the parish (if there were any) and, if so, the number may or may not be included in the figures above. It is quite difficult to be sure from the population tables.
- 1861 Census
- "ST. FAITHS. The decrease of population in most of the parishes comprised in the District of St. Faiths is attributed to the migration of labourers and their families to the manufacturing districts."
- Gray, Lorna
- The children of Booton at school between 1900-1905: Extracts from St Michael the Archangel monthly papers, by Rev. Whitwell Elwin.
[Booton, 2006]