Norfolk: Dersingham

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Modern and Historical Maps of this Parish.

Dersingham is about 8 miles N.E. of King's Lynn.

Cemeteries

See Norfolk Parish Links: Cemeteries

Census

1821: Numbers of households, males, females, etc.
1891: Surname List

Church Directories

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

Church History

Church of St Nicholas: Minister, services, description, picture, etc.
Haslam, A.: St Nicholas' Parish Church, Dersingham, Norfolk: Early history and church guide.
[Dersingham. The Church, 1993]
Tippen, Wallis Percival: A Short History of St Nicholas Church, Dersingham, Norfolk.
[Ramsgate, Graham Cumming, 1963]
Roman Catholic Church of St Cecilia: Description and pictures.
Dersingham Methodist Church: Address and picture.

Church Records

Marriages 1653-1837: See Phillimore's Marriage Registers, Volume 12.
Marriages: These are included in Boyd's Marriage Index.
Kerrich, Samuel: Churchwardens' Accounts, Dersingham.
Account book of Samuel Kerrich, Vicar of Dersingham 1754-1767.
[Photocopy in Norwich Local Studies Library]

Civil Registration

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

Description and Travel

Dersingham Village Pages. This is a link to an archived copy.: Parish council, description, history, pictures, village magazine, organisations, road and footpath maps, etc.
Dersingham Village Pages: Map, history, many pictures, etc.
Massen, Simon and Blaney, Walter: Dersingham Then and Now, Portrait of a Village.
[2000]
Dersingham Railway Station: Pictures, etc.
Dersingham Mill Road Mill: Description, history and pictures.
Dersingham Mill Way Mill: Description.
Dersingham Mill Hill Mill: Short description.

Gazetteers and Directories

Dersingham is in Freebridge Lynn hundred.

Land and Property

Great Britain: Statute: Dersingham Inclosure Act, 1779.
An act for dividing, allotting and inclosing the several whole year lands, common fields, half year lands, shack meadows and heaths, and other commons, waste and commonable lands, within the parish of Darsingham otherwise Dersingham, in the county of Norfolk.
[1779]
Great Britain: Statute: Annual Inclosure Act, 1857.
An act to authorize the inclosure of certain lands (including Costessey, Holme-next-the-Sea, Hunstanton and Dersingham, for which provisional inclosure orders were made between 30 October and 4 December 1856) in pursuance of a report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales: 21st March 1857.
[London, George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1857]

Maps

Parish outline and location.: See Parish Map for Docking 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 Dersingham became part of the Docking Union, and the workhouse was at Docking.

Schools

Dersingham schools. This is a link to an archived copy.: Pictures.

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