Place:Larling, Norfolk, England

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Larling is a village and part of the modern civil parish of Roudham and Larling, in the English county of Norfolk. The village is 8.5 miles east northeast of Thetford, 21.4 miles west southwest of Norwich and 94 miles northeast of London. The nearest railway station is at Thetford for the Breckland Line which runs between Cambridge and Norwich. The village is situated a little north of the A11 main road. Larling itself had a population of 271 in the 2001 UK census.

In 1935 the civil parish of Larling was abolished and the area was absorbed into the neighbouring parish of Roudham. In 2000 the expanded parish had its name officially changed to Roudham and Larling.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Roudham and Larling.

Research Tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Larling. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
• GENUKI also supplies a map illustrating the individual parishes of Shropham Hundred. 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.