The parish of Hackford All Saints was peculiar as it was one of three comprising the small market town of Reepham and adjacent countryside. The three parishes of Reepham, Whitwell & Hackford met in the centre of Reepham and indeed at one time all three churches were situated in the same churchyard - close if not touching. Sadly All Saints Hackford has now been demolished leaving a sad wall which was not felt worthy of photographing. Hackford parish covered an area to the west and south-west of the centre of Reepham, the village being in central northern Norfolk about 10 miles north-west of the city of Norwich. Hackford Hall about a mile west of Reepham is the notional centre of the parish and is surrounded with gently undulating farmland and scattered farms.

Two standard 800-entry register books form the deposit covering the period of this transcript. These registers are filmed on Microfiche 7 to 9 in the collection of the Norfolk Record Office and from which the transcript was prepared. These fiche are rather elderly and the images are of poor quality compared to more recent filming. The images and handwriting were sufficiently clear, however, to decipher the majority of the records and there was no requirement to seek confirmation from other sources. As a result this was a straightforward transcript to prepare and it is to be hoped few errors will have crept into it production.