Norfolk: Alburgh

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Modern and Historical Maps of this Parish.

Alburgh is about 5 miles W.S.W. of Bungay (which is in Suffolk).

Census

1891: Surname List

Church Directories

The parish is in the deanery of Redenhall, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
The parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of All Saints: Description and pictures.
Killick, Stanley E.: The Congregational churches of Harleston Wortwell Denton and Alburgh: a short history.
[Ramsgate, Kent, The Church Publishers, 1967?]

Church Records

Marriages: These are included in Boyd's Marriage Index.
They are not included in Phillimore's Marriage Registers.

Civil Registration

For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1930 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), Alburgh was in Depwade Registration District.

Gazetteers and Directories

Alburgh is in Earsham hundred.

Land and Property

Great Britain: Statute: Alburgh and Wortwell Inclosure Act, 1801.
An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing the commonable fen lands, commons, and waste grounds, within the parish of Alburgh, and hamlet of Wortwell, in the county of Norfolk [1801]

Maps

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

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Alburgh became part of the Depwade Union, and the workhouse was at Pulham St Mary Magdalen (Pulham Market).

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