Norfolk: Blakeney
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Blakeney is about 5 miles N.W. of Holt.
It was once called Snitterly.
Cemeteries
- The Monumental Inscriptions in the Hundred of Holt (Walter Rye).
- The parishes covered include Blakeney.
See Thornage
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Cemeteries
Census
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Censuses
Church Directories
- In 1883 the parish was in the
Deanery of Holt, 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 Nicholas.
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Nearby Churches of all denominations.
Church History
- Church of St Nicholas
- Description and pictures.
- (No author)
- Guide to Blakeney Church (St Nicholas), Norfolk.
[Norwich, Soman-Wherry Press Limited, 1950s]
- (No author)
- St Nicholas Church, Blakeney.
[Country Life Magazine, Oct 10th 1996]
- Linnell, Charles Lawrence Scruton
- St Nicholas, Blakeney.
[Cotton, Suffolk, Ashlock, revised, 1984]
- Green, Herbert J.
- Proposed restoration of the parish church of St. Nicholas,
Blakeney in the county of Norfolk
[Norwich, H.W. Stacey, 1882]
- Methodist Church
- Minister, services, picture, etc.
Follow the link to the home page, then search for the church.
- Ferroussat, Mary (editor)
- Blakeney Methodist Church, 1812-1997.
[ISBN 0951832824, Blakeney, Blakeney History Group, 1997]
- Catholic Church of Our Lady and St Peter
- Description and pictures.
Church Records
- Archdeacons' Transcripts
- Baptisms 1696-1789, Marriages 1696-1789 and
Burials 1696-1789.
[Parish Register Transcription Society, Dart Series, 2000?]
- Parish Register Transcripts
- Baptisms and
Marriages.
- Marriages
- These are not included in Boyd's Marriage Index or Phillimore's
Marriage Registers.
- Blakeney History Group
- Baptisms in Blakeney Chapel, 1862-1989.
[Facsimile of original registers and handwritten transcript,
in Norwich Local Studies Library]
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), Blakeney was in
Walsingham Registration District.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Civil Registration
Description and Travel
- Blakeney
- Description, history and pictures.
- Blakeney Mill
- Description, history and pictures.
- No author
- Blakeney Langham Morston Cley Wiveton: Festival year 1951.
(Festival of Britain 1951)
[ISBN 0951832816, 1951?]
- Blakeney Sailing Club
- A History of the Blakeney Sailing Club. Golden Jubilee
1939-1989.
[Blakeney, Blakeney Sailing Club, 1989]
- Bond, Geoffrey
- Echoes from Blakeney
[Holt, Glaven Press, 1948]
- Brooks, Peter
- Have you heard about Blakeney?
[ISBN 0946148155, Poppyland Publishing, 1985]
- Burrows Mrs
- Norfolk Notes.
Vol. 1: Mainly Blakeney, with a small portion on Binham,
Cley-next-the-Sea, Stiffkey, Walsingham and Wells-next-the-Sea.
Vol. 2: Monastic sites in Broadland (Broomholm, Ingham, Ludham,
Saint Benet's, etc.) and drawn from the writings of W.H. Cooke.
[c1935]
- Buttercup Joe
- The 1953 Floods at Cley, Salthouse and Blakeney.
[Norwich, 1992]
- Loose, Margaret
- Randon Reflections of Blakeney, a collection of notes.
[Fakenham, Lancaster Press Ltd, 1994]
- Neighbourhood Housing Society Ltd
- Fifty years of village housing and conservation: the story of
Blakeney Neighbourhood Housing Society.
[ISBN 0952802902, Blakeney, Blakeney Neighbourhood Housing
Society, 1996]
- Stephenson, Frank
- The Story of Blakeney.
[ISBN 0902887041, Blakeney, 1972]
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Description and Travel
Directories
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Directories
Historical Geography
Blakeney is in Holt Hundred.
- Parish outline and location.
- See Parish Map for Holt Hundred
- Description of Holt Hundred
- 1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
History
- Barringer, Christopher, and Wright, John (editors)
- Blakeney in the eighteenth century.
[ISBN 0951832808, Blakeney, Blakeney History Group, 2003]
- Cozens-Hardy, Basil
- The maritime trade of the port of Blakeney, Norfolk, 1587-1590.
[Norfolk Record Society, Vol. 8, 1936]
- Hales, Jane and Simms, Nicholas
- Blakeney Point and the Glaven Ports.
[Briston, Norfolk, Orlando, 1990]
- Hooton, Jonathan
- The Glaven ports: a maritime history of Blakeney, Cley and
Wiveton in north Norfolk.
[ISBN 0951832816, Blakeney, Blakeney History Group, 1996]
- Hooton, Jonathan
- The Maritime Trade and Decline of the Port of Blakeney and
Cley, 1500-1900.
[Norwich, 1973]
- Mellor, Derick
- The Glaven Valley: Historical Jottings.
[Blakeney, Cromer, Cheverton and Son, 1989]
- Mellor, Derick
- The Glaven Valley: Further Historical Jottings.
(Compiled by Marjorie Missen).
[Blakeney?, 1994]
- Sayers, G.R.
- Old Blakeney, a brief history of Blakeney and its haven.
[1970s]
Land and Property
- Great Britain: Statute
- Blakeney, Wiveton and Glandford Inclosure Act, 1820.
An act for inclosing lands in the parishes of Blakeney,
Wiveton, and Glandford, in the county of Norfolk: 8th July
1820.
[London, George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1820]
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Land and Property
Maps
- Modern and Historical Maps
- Maps of the parish.
Military Records
- Roll of Honour
- World Wars 1 and 2.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Military Records
Occupations
- Eales, Ted
Countryman's memoirs: a warden's life on Blakeney Point.
- See Norfolk Occupations
Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc
Societies
- Blakeney Area Historical Society
- Meetings, membership, etc.
- Blakeney Area Historical Society
- The Glaven Historian.
[The annual journal of the society]
Voting Registers
See Norfolk Parish Links: Voting Registers
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January 2007