Bacton

Other current and historical names

Baketuna
Broomholm

Built-Up Area: Keswick
Parish/Community: Bacton
District/Borough: North Norfolk
County: Norfolk
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 52°51'0"N 1°28'58"E
Eastings/Northings: 634617, 333744
OS Grid: TG346337
Mapcode Local: GBR XGM.9QL
Mapcode Global: WHMSK.RMCD

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Bacton within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Bacton in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Bacton, coast par., N. Norfolk, 4½ miles NE. of N. Walsham, 1770 ac., pop. 464; P.O.

Bacton in the Domesday Book

A village in Tunstead hundred, in the county of Norfolk.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Edric of Laxfield
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Robert Malet
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Robert Malet
- Taxable Value: 6 ³⁄₄ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £7 10/- in 1066; £7 10/- in 1070; £7 10/- in 1086
- Households: 10 villagers; 14 smallholders; 28 freemen; 3 slaves
- Plough Teams: 3 lord's ploughs; 21 men's ploughs
- Meadow: 19 acres
- Woodland: 60 pigs
- Mills: 2
- Animals in 1066: 8 pigs
- Animals in 1086: 1 cattle; 13 pigs; 16 goats; 2 cobs

British Place Names

Bacton, Norfolk

Bacton is a village in Keswick , Norfolk

Bacton in historic gazetteers

Bacton in the Domesday Book