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Norfolk: Poor Law after 1834 Act

Blofield Union

Union history

Before 1834 some of these parishes belonged to Gilbert Unions, Incorporations or had their own Work or Parish House (WkHse) as shown.

Blofield Union
Places
Pre 1834 Union,
Incorporation
or Parish Work House
Acle Acle-GU
Beighton Acle-GU
Blofield
Braydeston
Brundall
Buckenham Ferry Acle-GU
Burlingham St Andrew Acle-GU
Burlingham St Edmund Acle-GU
Burlingham St Peter Acle-GU
Cantley Acle-GU
Fishley Acle-GU
Freethorpe Acle-GU
Halvergate Acle-GU
Hassingham Acle-GU
Hemblington
Limpenhoe Acle-GU
Lingwood Acle-GU
Moulton St Mary Acle-GU
Blofield Union
Places
Pre 1834 Union,
Incorporation
or Parish Work House
Plumstead, Great
  (Great Plumstead)
Plumstead, Little
  (Little Plumstead)
Postwick
Ranworth -with- Panxworth Acle-GU
Reedham Acle-GU
South Walsham St. Mary
South Walsham St. Lawrence
Southwood Acle-GU
Strumpshaw
Thorpe St. Andrew
(or Thorpe-next-Norwich)
WkHse
Tunstall Acle-GU
Upton Acle-GU
Wickhampton Acle-GU
Witton (near Blofield)
Woodbastwick Acle-GU

Where "Acle-GU" = Acle Gilbert Union.

Poor Law Records - Transcriptions

List of the names of the Guardians of the Blofield Union who served from October 1835 to March 1836.

Poor Law Records - Images

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

  1. Go down the "Historical Record Collections"
  2. Select Title - "England, Norfolk Poor Law Union Records, 1796-1900"
  3. Select "Browse through xxx images"
  4. Under County pick - "Norfolk"
  5. Under Poor Law Union select the "Required Union"
  6. 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).

Books

Serreau, Audrey
Times and Years, Blofield.
A history of the Union Workhouse at Lingwood in the County of Norfolk.
[ISBN: 0-948903-93-7 : Bungay, Suffolk: Morrow & Co, 2000]

Further information can be found:


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

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Copyright © Mike Bristow.
May 2011