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

Census

Church Directories

In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Holt, in the archdeaconry of Norwich.
The parish church is dedicated to St Nicholas.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of St Nicholas: Description, history and pictures.
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]
Blakeney Methodist Church: Minister, picture, etc.
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.
Blakeney Chapel: Archaeological investigation of Blakeney Chapel, now thought to be a domestic building.

Church Records

Archdeacon's Transcripts: Bessingham (Bapt 1725-1812, Mar 1726-1811, Bur 1725-1811),
and Blakeney (Bapt 1696-1789, Mar 1696-1789, Bur 1696-1789).
[Parish Register Transcription Society, Vol NFK030 (fiche), 1990s]
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]

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.

Description and Travel

Blakeney: Description, history and pictures.
The Glaven Valley: the area which includes Blakeney, Cley, Glandford, Letheringsett, Morston and Wiveton.: Local information, businesses, events, etc.
Pictures of old Blakeney: From the Frith Collection.
Blakeney: Description 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]

Gazetteers and Directories

Blakeney is in Holt hundred.

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 & 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]

Maps

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

Military Records

Roll of Honour: World Wars 1 and 2.

Occupations

Eales, Ted Countryman's memoirs: a warden's life on Blakeney Point.: See Norfolk Occupations

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Blakeney became part of the Walsingham Union, and the workhouse was at Great Snoring.

Societies

Blakeney Area Historical Society: Meetings, membership, etc.
Blakeney Area Historical Society: The Glaven Historian.
[The annual journal of the society]

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