Place:Haddiscoe, Norfolk, England

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Haddiscoe is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated some 30 km southeast of the city of Norwich, but only 10 km west of the Suffolk town of Lowestoft.

In 1935 Haddiscoe more than doubled its area by absorbing the smaller parishes of Thorpe next Haddiscoe and Langley, and also taking on parts of the parishes of Chedgrave, Loddon, Raveningham, Reedham, Stockton and Toft Monks. This was an increase of 11.43 km2 (4.415 sq mi). (Source: A Vision of Britain through Time)

The civil parish has now an area of 19.88 km2 (7.68 sq mi) and in the 2001 UK census had a population of 481 in 194 households, increasing to 487 at the 2011 UK Census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the District of South Norfolk.

Haddiscoe railway station, on the Wherry Lines service between Norwich and Lowestoft, is within the parish although approximately 2.5 km from the centre of the village. The Haddiscoe Cut (New Cut), a canal which joins the River Waveney and the River Yare, joins the River Waveney within the parish and close to the railway station. Toft Monks mill is a disused drainage windpump which once drained the marshes into the River Waverney.

St Mary's Church at Haddiscoe is one of the 124 round-tower churches of Norfolk, believed - despite its round tower- to be of early Norman origin. Jan Pier Pier, a 16th-century Dutch immigrant and creator of some of the dykes surrounding the village, is buried in the Church nave. The Church also contains frescoes from the 14th century representing the Black Death of 1349.

Research Tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Haddiscoe. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
• A map illustrating the individual parishes of Clavering Hundred may be useful. Parishes labelled with letters should be identifiable from the Ordnance Survey Map of 1900.
• GENUKI also advises that the following lists for Norfolk are to be found in FamilySearch:

• England, Norfolk, Parish Registers (County Record Office), 1510-1997
• England, Norfolk Archdeacon's Transcripts, 1600-1812
• England, Norfolk Bishop's Transcripts, 1685-1941
• England, Norfolk Marriage Bonds, 1557-1915
• England, Norfolk Non-conformist Records, 1613-1901

• Ancestry.co.uk has the following lists as of 2018 (UK or worldwide Ancestry membership or library access required). With the exception of the index to wills these files are browsible images of the original documents. The files are separated by type and broken down into time periods (i.e., "Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812" is more than one file). The general explanatory notes are worth reading for those unfamiliar with English parish records.

• Index to wills proved in the Consistory Court of Norwich : and now preserved in the District Probate Registry at Norwich
• Norfolk, England, Bishop's Transcripts, 1579-1935
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1915
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1990
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1940

• FindMyPast is another pay site with large collection of parish records. As of October 2018 they had 20 types of Norfolk records available to browse including Land Tax Records and Electoral Registers.