Norfolk Poor Law before 1834

Bawdeswell Gilbert Union

This included the parishes of Bawdeswell, Billingford (near East Dereham), Bintry, Bylaugh, Foxley, Lyng, and Sparham

Union history

• 1782 - Gilbert's Act allowed parishes to join together and run a workhouse. This was for the old, the sick and the infirm.
• 1785 - Bawdeswell Gilbert Union formed containing seven parishes (see later).
  • House of Industry located at The Street, Bawdeswell, NR20 4RT, [Map reference is TG045208].
• 1835 - Mitford and Launditch Poor Law Union formed (was previously an Incorporation).
  • Bawdeswell was dissolved.
  • Parishes became part of the Mitford and Launditch Union using the workhouse at Gressenhall.
• Description is in Whites 1845 directory.
• 2001 - House of Industry is now a Public House called "The Old Workhouse".

After 1834 these parishes moved as shown :-

Further information can be found:

• about locations in the Towns and Parishes pages.
• about which hundred a parish occurs in.

See also the Poor Law page and the Post 1834 Unions page

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March 2010