Norfolk: Carbrooke

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Carbrooke is about 3 miles E. of Watton.
The name may also be spelled Carbrook.
See also Brooke.

Cemeteries

Not all memorials may be included, even when a transcription is marked as complete, for example when stones are not legible enough to be read or photographed.

Mid-Norfolk Family History Society: Memorial Inscriptions of the Church and Churchyard of SS Peter and Paul, Carbrooke, Norfolk.
[Mid-Norfolk Family History Society, 2004]

Census

Church Directories

In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Breckles, 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 Peter and St Paul.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of St Peter and St Paul: Description, history, pictures, etc.
Church of St Peter and St Paul: Description and pictures.
Church of St Peter and St Paul: Services, etc.
Church Bells: Church Bells, as described in 1874.
Church Bells: Bells and Bellringing.
Carbrooke Methodist Church: Carbrooke Methodist Church Centenary, 1970.
[Carbrooke, 1970]
Primitive Methodist Church: Description, picture and map.

Church Records

Parish Register Transcripts: Baptisms 1813-1880
Parish Register Transcripts: Baptisms 1881-1915, Marriages 1813-1837 and Burials 1813-1868.
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), Carbrooke was in Wayland Registration District.

Description and Travel

Carbrooke History and Heritage: Description, history, people, school, churches, censuses, mills, pictures, etc.
Saunders, Dorothy; and Saunders, Stanley: Carbrooke in the Past.
[Watton, D. and S. Saunders, 1986]
Wayland Partnership Development Trust: A History of Carbrooke.
[Wayland Partnership Development Trust, Capturing our Wayland Heritage, Including DVD, 2011]
Carbrooke Parish Council: News, meetings, minutes, etc.
Carbrooke Mill Drift Early Post Mill: Description and history.
Carbrooke Mill Drift Later Post Mill: Description, history and map.
Carbrooke Mill Lane Post Mill: Description, history and map.
Carbrooke Mill Lane Tower Mill: Description, history and pictures.
Carbrooke Shipdham Road Post Mill: Description and history.

Directories

Historical Geography

Carbrooke is in Wayland Hundred.

Parish outline and location.: See Parish Map for Wayland Hundred
Description of Wayland Hundred: 1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk

History

Riley, Helen: Carbrooke and the Commanderie of the Knights Hospitallers
[Carbrooke Heritage Project, 2002]
Riley, Helen: The Knights Hospitallers: Who were they?
[Carbrooke Heritage Project, 2002]

Land and Property

See 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.

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Carbrooke became part of the Wayland Union, and the workhouse was at Rockland All Saints.
Charities
Summary published by Zachary Clark in 1811

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	69	101	536
1811	88	110	615
1821	154	154	771
1831	152	155	789
1841	160	---	807
1851	175	---	796

Year	Inhabited Houses	Families	Population
1861	172	---	751
1871	166	188	704
1881	150	153	612
1891	142	142	534
1901	133	132	552
1911	---	139	545

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.

1901 Census: "Including Caudlesprings."

Other population figures

Population in 1831

Societies

Carbrooke Heritage Group: Description, projects, meetings, etc.

Voting Registers

See Norfolk Parish Links: Voting Registers

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