Norfolk: Blickling

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Modern and Historical Maps of this Parish.

Blickling is about 2 miles N.N.W. of Aylsham.

Cemeteries

The Blickling Pyramid: The mausoleum of John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, and his two wives, Mary Anne and Caroline.

Census

1891: Surname List

Church Directories

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

Church History

Church of St Andrew: Description and pictures.
Church of St Andrew: Description, services, picture, etc.
Church of St Andrew: Description, address, services, picture, etc.
Mead, Denis: St Andrew's Church, Blickling: Notes on the history of the church.
[Blickling, The Church, 1980s]

Church Records

Parish Register Transcripts: Baptisms.
Marriages: These are not included in Boyd's Marriage Index or 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), Blickling was in Aylsham Registration District.

Description and Travel

Blickling: Description and pictures.
Blickling: Description and pictures.
Blickling Water Mill: Description, history and pictures.
Durst, David W.: Blickling Bricks.
[Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society (NIAS), in "Journal of the NIAS", vol.II, no.2, 1977]

Gazetteers and Directories

Blickling is in South Erpingham hundred.

Land and Property

Blickling Hall

Blickling Hall: National Trust: Description, opening times, events, etc.
Blickling Hall, 1901-1940: The history of Blickling Hall from 1901 until it was transferred to the National Trust.
The hall, family, rectors, books, pictures, etc.
Blickling Hall: Norfolkcoast: Description, pictures, ghosts, etc.
Garnett, Oliver: Blickling: garden, park and estate.
[National Trust, 1990s]
Griffiths, Elizabeth: The management of two east Norfolk estates in the seventeenth century: Blickling and Felbrigg.
Vol.1: 1596-1654; Vol.2: 1654-1717.
[Norwich: University of East Anglia Ph.D. Thesis, 1987]
Lees-Milne, James: Blickling Hall, Norfolk.
[London, The National Trust, sixth edition, 1966]
Maddison, John (editor): Blickling Hall; National Trust.
[ISBN: 0707800862, London, The Trust, 1987]
Meyrick, Frederick, 1827-1906: Guide to Blickling Hall and Church (with some historical notes; revised in 1938 by M.E.B.).
[Aylsham: Barnwell, 1938]
National Trust: Blickling Hall.
[First printed 1978]
[Stellar Press, Hatfield, Herts., 1985]
List of People.
Newman, John: Blickling Hall (Guidebook).
[ISBN 0707800862, London: National Trust, 1987]
Stanley-Millson, Caroline: The Architecture and decoration of Blickling Hall up to 1629. 2 volumes.
[Norwich: University of East Anglia M.Phil. Thesis, 1981]

Maps

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

Names, Personal

Hobart: See Norfolk People and Families

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Blickling became part of the Aylsham Union, and the workhouses were at Buxton and Oulton. These were replaced by a new workhouse at Aylsham in 1849.

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