Bickerston / Bikereston / Bikerston / Bixton

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "B[ixton], [o]r Bikereston, was dedicated to St. Andrew, and was a parochial church, and had two rectors; Sir Will. de Mortimer was patron of one mediety, and Warine de Herford of the other; each rector had eleven acres glebe", and names the first recorded rectors of the two medieties: "Adam de Herford, to Herford's mediety", in 1307, and "Richard de Helmingham", to Mortimer's mediety, in 1295. Blomefield (ibid.) adds: "The Church is ruinated, and it hath been a sinecure for some time; it is now esteemed as an hamlet to Bernham-Broome." In his entry for Bernham-Broome, Blomefield (ibid.) notes: "Its two churches are consolidated, and the church of Bickerston, or Bixton, which was dedicated to St. Andrew, was consolidated to them Ao. 1680." White's Gazetteer of 1854 (p. 467) notes: "There was anciently a church at Bickerston, the foundations of which are still to be seen", and the ruins were reported still visible in White's 1883 edition. Knott (2006) describes the ramains as "Two broken flint walls boil with elder in a field on the road between Colton and Barnham Broom [...] In fact, they are probably the remains of a Norman church [...] Bickerston, sometimes recorded as Bixton, is in the parish of Barnham Broom, and has been for centuries. There are no parish records in existence, suggesting that St Andrew fell into disuse at, or even before, the Reformation."