Norfolk: Acle
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Acle is about 11 miles E. of Norwich.
It includes "Nowhere" and Damgate.
Cemeteries
- Inscriptions in the Churchyard of Acle.
- See Swafield
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Cemeteries
Census
See Norfolk Parish Links: Censuses
Church Directories
- In 1883 the parish was in the
Deanery of Blofield, in the archdeaconry of Norwich.
It could have been in a different deanery or archdeaconry both
before and after this date.
- The parish church is dedicated to St Edmund, King and Martyr.
Church History
- Direct links to church web sites are not included here as they tend to change.
- Please search online for individual churches, and see Norfolk Parish Links
for sites that include many Norfolk churches of all denominations.
See Norfolk Parish Links: Church History
Church Records
- Acle Marriages 1664-1812
- See Phillimore's Marriage Registers, Volume 1.
- Marriages
- These are included in
Boyd's Marriage Index.
- Churchwardens' Rates
- Principal property occupiers and the amounts paid.
1831-1832.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Church Records
Civil Registration
For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837
and 1930 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), Acle was in
Blofield Registration District.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Civil Registration
Description and Travel
- Acle Society
- A Guide to Acle.
[Acle Society, 1986]
- Direct links to town and parish web sites are not included here as they
tend to change.
- Please search online, and see Norfolk Parish Links.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Description and Travel
Directories
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Directories
Historical Geography
Acle is in Walsham Hundred.
Nowhere, an area of salt marshes near Great
Yarmouth, is a detached portion of the parish.
- Parish outline and location.
- See Parish Map for Walsham Hundred
- Description of Walsham Hundred
- 1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
History
- Grint, Brian S.
- An Acle Chronicle.
[ISBN 0946148392, North Walsham, Poppyland Publishing, 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]
- Surveyors' Rates
- Principal property occupiers and the amounts paid.
1820-1821, and
1826.
- Surveyors' Payments, or Disbursements
- Payments for road repairs, materials, tools, etc.
1820-1822, and
1827-1836.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Land and Property
Maps
See Norfolk Parish Links: Maps
Military Records
- For War Memorials and Rolls of Honour
- see Norfolk Parish Links
- Basey, Chris
- Acle Book of Remembrance.
Not just names in stone: The lives and times of the men who died
in two World Wars and are commemorated on the Acle War Memorial.
[Acle, Acle Branch of the Royal British Legion, 2003]
- Basey, Chris
- Just a job that we had to do!
World War Two stories told by Acle people.
[Acle, Acle Veterans Project, 2005]
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Military Records
Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc
- After 1834 Acle became part of the
Blofield Union,
and the workhouse was at Lingwood.
- Overseers' Rates
Principal property occupiers and the amounts paid.
1794, and
1809-1810.
- Overseers' Payments, or Disbursements
Payments for outrelief, medical expenses, clothes, etc.
1794, and
1816.
Population
These figures are from the population tables which were produced after the
10-yearly national censuses. The "Families" heading includes families and
single occupiers.
Year |
Inhabited Houses |
Families |
Population |
1801 | 114 | 114 | 600 |
1811 | 124 | 124 | 671 |
1821 | 136 | 139 | 698 |
1831 | 159 | 174 | 820 |
1841 | 177 | -- | 864 |
1851 | 180 | -- | 816 |
|
Year |
Inhabited Houses |
Families |
Population |
1861 | 197 | -- | 926 |
1871 | 204 | 204 | 930 |
1881 | 207 | 216 | 915 |
1891 | 212 | 213 | 933 |
1901 | 206 | 209 | 846 |
1911 | -- | 237 | 942 |
|
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."
Voting Registers
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