Norfolk: Great Cressingham

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Modern and Historical Maps of this Parish.

Great Cressingham is about 6 miles S.S.E. of Swaffham.
See also Little Cressingham.

Cemeteries

See Norfolk Parish Links: Cemeteries

Census

1891: Surname List

Church Directories

Until 1857, the parish was in the Peculiar of Great Cressingham.
In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Cranwich, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
The parish church is dedicated to St Michael.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of St Michael: Description and pictures.
Great Cressingham Methodist Church: Services, minister, picture, etc.
Chapman, Cecil F.: Cressingham and its chapels: Great Cressingham New Methodist Chapel, 50th anniversary, 1932-1982.
[Great Cressingham, 1982]

Church Records

Marriages 1557-1812: See Phillimore's Marriage Registers, Volume 3.
Marriages: These are included in Boyd's Marriage Index.
Birch, Charles George Roberts: On certain brasses at Necton and Great Cressingham.
[Norwich, Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, in "Norfolk Archaeology", vol.12, 1895]

Civil Registration

For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1930 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), Great Cressingham was in Swaffham Registration District.

Description and Travel

Great Cressingham Mill: Description.

Gazetteers and Directories

Great Cressingham is in South Greenhoe hundred.

Manors

Manor Court Rolls of Great Cressingham 1328-29: From "English Manorial Documents" by E. P. Cheyney, 1907.
Chandler, Henry W.: Five court rolls of Great Cressingham in the county of Norfolk.
Court rolls in Latin, with English translation, introduction and notes.
[London, Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1885]

Maps

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

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Great Cressingham became part of the Swaffham Union, and the workhouse was at Swaffham.

Schools

Great Cressingham National School: A Victorian school experience.

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