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Acle is about 11 miles east of Norwich.

Cemeteries

Inscriptions in the churchyard of Acle.
See Swafield

Census

Church Directories

Church History

Church of St Edmund, King and Martyr
Picture, description, events, etc.
Methodist Church
Address, minister, picture, etc.

Church Records

Acle Marriages 1664-1812
See Phillimore's Marriage Registers, Volume 1.

Description and Travel

Acle Parish Pages
Description, history, pictures, businesses, news, events, etc.
Pictures of old Acle
From the Frith Collection.
Acle Society
A Guide to Acle.
[Acle Society, 1986]

Gazetteers and Directories

Acle is in Walsham hundred.

Historical Geography

Nowhere, an area of salt marshes near Great Yarmouth, is a detached portion of the parish.

History

Grint, Brian
An Acle Chronicle.
[ISBN 0946148392, Poppyland, 1989]

Land and Property

Great Britain: Statute
Acle Inclosure Act, 1797.
An act for dividing, allotting and inclosing the arable lands, intermixed pastures, commons and waste grounds within the parish of Acle, in the county of Norfolk.
[1797]

Maps

Parish outline and location.
See Parish Map for Blofield Registration District, 1836
Modern and Historical Maps
Maps of the parish and nearby places.

Military Records

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

Population

These figures are from the population tables which were produced after the 10-yearly national censuses. The "Families" heading includes families and separate occupiers.

Year   Inhabited
Houses
Families Population
1801114114600
1811124124671
1821136139698
1831159174820
1841177  --864
1851180  --816
Year   Inhabited
Houses
Families Population
1861197  --926
1871204204930
1881207216915
1891212213933
1901206209846
1911  --237942

There may be more people living in detached parts of the parish (if there were any) and, if so, the number may or may not be included in the figures above. It is quite difficult to be sure from the population tables.

1851 and 1861 Censuses
"Parts of the following Parishes in the South Walsham Subdistrict, are situate in the Marshes at distances varying from two to seven miles from the respective villages: South Walsham St. Lawrence, Upton, Acle, Halvergate, Tunstall, Wickhampton, Freethorpe, and Reedham."

1901 Census
"Including Damgate."


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