Norfolk: Great Cressingham
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Great Cressingham is about 6 miles S.S.E. of Swaffham.
See also Little Cressingham.
Cemeteries
See Norfolk Parish Links: Cemeteries
Census
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Censuses
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.
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Nearby Churches of all denominations.
Church History
- Church of St Michael
- Description and pictures.
- Methodist Church
- Minister, services, picture, etc.
Follow the link to the home page, then search for the church.
- 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]
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Church Records
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.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Civil Registration
Description and Travel
- Great Cressingham Mill
- Description.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Description and Travel
Directories
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Directories
Historical Geography
Great Cressingham is in South Greenhoe hundred.
Land and Property
See Norfolk Parish Links: Land and Property
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
- Modern and Historical Maps
- Maps of the parish.
Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc
Schools
- Great Cressingham National School
- A Victorian school experience.
Voting Registers
See Norfolk Parish Links: Voting Registers
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May 2007