The BAWDESWELL.NET  website - Village Guide at a glance
BAWDESWELL   - pop. 644  (1991 census)
About Bawdeswell -  the complete guide
CONTENTS
The Chaucer Connection    The Canterbury Tales immortalised the Reeve of Bawdeswell. Did Chaucer have any connection with the village?
Chaucer House   The oldest house in the village. Did it have any connection with Chaucer?
Bawdeswell Heath   Mentioned in the Reeve's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Bawdeswell's Churches   Medieval fell down.   Victorian destroyed by 
WWII airplane, Church re-built 1953 as Neo-Georgian - a full guide in colour.
 
List of Rectors since 1313. 
 
List of names on the War Memorial
The Tollhouse   Part of the old Norwich to FakenhamTurnpike.
Bawdeswell Hall   A Dutch Gabled Mansion(1683 )with a fine walled garden.
The Gurney Family & Barclays Bank   Founder members.
Elizabeth Fry   A  member of the Gurney family, famous as a prison reformer.
The Eglinton Family   builders of Bawdeswell Hall.
The Lloyd Family  lost Bylaugh Estate at gambling and moved to Bawdeswell Hall.
The Stoughton Family   Also once lived in Bawdeswell Hall.
The Schools   Community Primary, 
The Willows
(formerly The Ram Inn)
Bell Inn   (former Coaching Inn)
Church View  (former Workhouse)
Bawdeswell Home Guard
OTHER  LOCAL   TOPICS
Satelite images of the area
Up to date Maps
Courtesy of Multimap.com
Old Maps of the area.
Roman  Road
Bylaugh Hall    Early Steel-framed building.  Lost at gambling. 
Its more recent history.
Alphabetical SUBJECT INDEX

 
Much of the material drawn on is from Lorna Downs college project of 1982/83.
  Additional material is from the Reeve's Tale Magazine and the authors are shown.