Norfolk: Poor Law

Mitford and Launditch Incorporation 1775 - 1835

Incorporation history

1775 - Mitford and Launditch Incorporation was formed by an Act of Parliament.
Originally site was called Chapel Farm.
1777 - Opened 7th July - House of Industry at Gressenhall, East Dereham, NR30 4DR, [Map reference is TF974170].
1785 - Burials started in the area now covered by the orchard.
1834 - Farm renamed "Union Farm".
1835 - Mitford and Launditch Incorporation dissolved.
Description is in Whites 1845 directory.
c. 1835 - Became Mitford and Launditch Union

Except where indicated all the parishes joined this Incorporation c.1775. After 1835 these parishes moved as shown :-

Places	1835 Union
Beeston (cum Bittering)	Mitford and Launditch
Beetley	Mitford and Launditch
Bilney, East (East Bilney)	Mitford and Launditch
Bittering Parva (Little Bittering)	Mitford and Launditch
Brisley	Mitford and Launditch
Colkirk	Mitford and Launditch
Cranworth	Mitford and Launditch
Dereham, East (East Dereham) (1776-1801) (*)	Mitford and Launditch
Dunham, Great (Great Dunham)	Mitford and Launditch
Dunham, Little (Little Dunham)	Mitford and Launditch
Elmham, North (North Elmham)	Mitford and Launditch
Fransham, Great (Great Fransham)	Mitford and Launditch
Fransham, Little (Little Fransham)	Mitford and Launditch
Garveston	Mitford and Launditch
Gateley	Mitford and Launditch
Gressenhall	Mitford and Launditch
Hardingham	Mitford and Launditch
Hockering	Mitford and Launditch
Hoe	Mitford and Launditch
Horningtoft	Mitford and Launditch
Kempston	Mitford and Launditch
Letton	Mitford and Launditch
Lexham, East (East Lexham)	Mitford and Launditch

Places	1835 Union
Lexham, West (West Lexham)	Mitford and Launditch
Litcham	Mitford and Launditch
Longham	Mitford and Launditch
Mattishall	Mitford and Launditch
Mattishall Burgh	Mitford and Launditch
Mileham	Mitford and Launditch
Oxwick	Mitford and Launditch
Pattesley	Mitford and Launditch
Reymerston	Mitford and Launditch
Rougham	Mitford and Launditch
Scarning	Mitford and Launditch
Shipdham	Mitford and Launditch
Southburgh	Mitford and Launditch
Stanfield	Mitford and Launditch
Swanton Morley	Mitford and Launditch
Thuxton	Mitford and Launditch
Tittleshall	Mitford and Launditch
Tuddenham, East (East Tuddenham)	Mitford and Launditch
Tuddenham, North (North Tuddenham)	Mitford and Launditch
Weasenham All Saints	Mitford and Launditch
Weasenham St. Peter	Mitford and Launditch
Wellingham	Mitford and Launditch
Wendling	Mitford and Launditch
Westfield	Mitford and Launditch
Whinburgh	Mitford and Launditch
Whissonsett	Mitford and Launditch
Wood Rising	Mitford and Launditch
Worthing	Mitford and Launditch
Yaxham	Mitford and Launditch

Notes

1. (*) indicates a workhouse at East Dereham before it joined (and after it left) the Union. See the Workhouses before 1834 page for further details.

Books

Reid, Andy: The Union Workhouse
[ISBN: 0-85033-914-6: Phillimore, 1994]
Pope, Stephen: Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse: A History of the Buildings and the People Who Lived and Worked in Them
[ISBN: 0-94614-874-0: Poppyland Publishing, 2006]
Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service: Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse: History and Guide
[ISBN: 0-903101-76-9: Jarrold, 2007]

Poor Law Records - Images

Online images of some poor law registers, admissions books etc. from 1796 to 1900 are available at the

LDS familysearch website (UK+Ireland records section)

Go down the "Historical Record Collections"
Select Title - "England, Norfolk Poor Law Union Records, 1796-1900"
Select "Browse through xxx images"
Under County pick - "Norfolk"
Under Poor Law Union select the "Required Union"
Records are under headings such as "District, Workhouse & Unknown etc."

Other Websites

Acts, descriptions, maps, some pictures etc. can be found at :-
www.workhouses.org.uk (The Story of Workhouses).

Further information can be found:

about locations in the Towns and Parishes pages.
about which hundred a parish occurs in.

See also the Poor Law page and the Post 1834 Unions page

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