Norfolk: Cley next the Sea

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Cley next the Sea is about 4 miles N.N.W. of Holt.
It is also known as Cley and as Clay.
See also Cockley Cley.

Cemeteries

The Monumental Inscriptions in the Hundred of Holt (Walter Rye).: The parishes covered include Cley.
See Thornage

Census

1891: Surname List

Church Directories

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

Church History

Church of St Margaret: Description, history, incumbents, pictures, etc.
Church of St Margaret: Description and pictures.
Church of St Margaret: Services, etc.
Church of St Margaret: Picture of the church.
Cozens-Hardy, Basil: A short history of St. Margaret's Church, Cley-next-the-Sea.
[Holt, Rounce and Wortley, 1928]
Linnell, Charles Lawrence Scruton: St Margaret's Church, Cley-Next-The-Sea.
[London, Home Words, 1959]
Linnell, Charles Lawrence Scruton: The brasses at Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk.
[Monumental Brass Society Transactions, vol.8, part.5, 1947]
Micklethwaite, J.T.: A note on the Church of Cley.
[Norwich, Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, in "Norfolk Archaeology", vol.15, 1904]
Rose, Edwin J.; and Pooley, Graham: A medieval wallpainting from Cley-next-the-Sea.
[Norwich, Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, in "Norfolk Archaeology", vol.37, 1980]

Church Records

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), Cley was in Erpingham Registration District.

Description and Travel

Cley: Description, pictures, parish council, etc.
Cley: Description and pictures.
Cley: Description and pictures.
Buttercup Joe: The 1953 floods at Cley, Salthouse and Blakeney.
[Buttercup Publishing, 1992]
Buttercup Joe: Buttercup's war at Cley-next-the-Sea, 1931-1945.
[1993]
Starr, Freda: Cley village memories.
[Blakeney, Red House Books, 1989]
Starr, Freda: Some old Cley characters.
[Blakeney, Red House Books, 1992]
Starr, Freda: A village shop.
[ISBN 0947681558, Cley-next-the-Sea, Anglia Television Bygones, 1994]
Stephenson, Frank: The story of Cley-next-the-sea, with a brief commentary on the church of St. Margaret.
[Blakeney, The Maritime Boatshop, 1977]
Cley Post Mill: Description and map.
Cley Tower Mill: Description, history and pictures.
No author: Blakeney Langham Morston Cley Wiveton: Festival year 1951.
(Festival of Britain 1951)
[ISBN 0951832816, 1951?]

Gazetteers and Directories

Cley is in Holt hundred.

History

Brooks, Peter F.: Cley: Living with memories of greatness.
[ISBN 0946148074, North Walsham, Poppyland Publishing, 1988]
Cozens-Hardy, Basil: The maritime trade of the port of Blakeney, which included Cley and Wiveton, 1587-1590.
[Norwich, Norfolk Record Society, vol.8, 1936]
Harrison, Carey: Cley.
[ISBN 0434313688, London, Heinemann, 1991]
Hooton, Jonathan: The maritime trade and decline of the port of Blakeney and Cley, 1500-1900.
[Norwich, 1973]
Hooton, Jonathan: The Glaven Ports: A maritime history of Blakeney, Cley and Wiveton, in north Norfolk.
[ISBN 0951832816, Blakeney, Blakeney History Group, 1996]
Longcroft, Adam: Fire damage in a rural community: the case of Cley-next-the-sea.
[Vernacular Architecture, vol.26, 1995]
Mellor, Derick: The Glaven Valley: Historical Jottings.
[Cromer, Cheverton and Son, 1989]
Mellor, Derick: The Glaven Valley: Further Historical Jottings.
(Compiled by Marjorie Missen).
[Blakeney?, 1994]

Land and Property

Great Britain: Statute: Cley Inclosure Act, 1821.
An act for inclosing lands in the parish of Cley-next-the-Sea, in the county of Norfolk, and for embanking and draining parts of the said lands, and lands in the parish of Wiveton in the said county.
[London, George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1821]
Inclosure: See also Field Dalling

Maps

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

Military Records

Roll of Honour: World Wars 1 and 2.

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Cley became part of the Erpingham Union, and the workhouses were at Gimingham and Sheringham. These were replaced by a new workhouse at West Beckham in 1850.

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 127 127 547

1811 142 144 595

1821 169 176 742

1831 189 201 827

1841 194 -- 828

1851 214 -- 995

Year Inhabited
Houses Families Population

1861 216 -- 791

1871 211 219 764

1881 188 195 719

1891 197 194 712

1901 183 184 721

1911 -- 188 769

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.

1851 Census: "About 60 persons dwelling in Salthouse, and about 120 in Cley-next-the-Sea were only temporarily in those Parishes, in consequence of the works of the Salthouse Inclosure and Embankment in progress."
1861 Census: "The decrease of population in the parishes of Weybourne, Salthouse, and Cley-next-the-Sea is attributed to the fact that the return for 1851 included a large number of labourers who were engaged in embanking a tract of marsh land."
1901 Census: "Including Newgate."

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