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The following appear as names for Beeston. Follow the links for what the author actually said:
Name | Author | Source |
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BEESTON | John Marius Wilson | Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72). |
BEESTON NEXT LITCHAM | John Marius Wilson | Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72). |
BEESTON OR BEESTON NEXT LITCHAM | John Marius Wilson | Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72). |
BEESTON WITH LITTLE BITTERING | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:
These names were used for units associated with Beeston. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:
Name | Unit Type | Source |
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BEESTON | Ecclesiastical Parish (EP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 356. |
Parish-level Unit (AP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 356. | |
BEESTON ALL SAINTS | Ecclesiastical Parish (EP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 356. |
Parish-level Unit (AP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 356. | |
BEESTON ALL SAINTS AND LITTLE BITTERING | Parish-level Unit (CP) | 1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'. |
BEESTON ALL SAINTS WITH LITTLE BITTERING | Parish-level Unit (CP) | 1881 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area, Houses, and Population of Civil Parishes in the several Registration Sub-Districts in 1871 and 1881'. |
BEESTON NEXT MILEHAM | Ecclesiastical Parish (EP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 356. |
Parish-level Unit (AP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 356. | |
BEESTON WITH BITTERING | Parish-level Unit (CP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 357. |
MILEHAM AND BEESTON ON THE PART OF BEESTON | Manor | The National Archives, Manorial Documents Register |
NFK 0817 | Manor | The National Archives, Manorial Documents Register |
NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with Beeston, and you must judge whether all or even any of them are variant names for the place. They may well include the names of other locations or areas:
Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears, but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of Beeston, or that our references are to the first usage of the names. Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census officials mis-hearing local names.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Beeston, in Breckland and Norfolk | Place names, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1737/names
Date accessed: 18th October 2024