Norfolk: Downham West
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Downham West is about 16 miles S. of King's Lynn.
It is also known as West Downham.
It is a civil parish (not an ecclesiastical parish), created in 1896
from the western, rural, part of Downham Market.
It contained only a small hamlet called Salter's Lode.
See also Denver,
Downham Market,
Stow Bardolph
and Wimbotsham.
Cemeteries
See Norfolk Parish Links: Cemeteries
Census
See Norfolk Parish Links: Censuses
Church Directories
Church Records
- Marriages
- These are not included in Boyd's Marriage Index or Phillimore's
Marriage Registers.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Church Records
Civil Registration
For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1896
and 1930 (and for the census in 1901), Downham West was in
Downham Registration District.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Civil Registration
Description and Travel
- Downham West and Salter's Lode
- Description and history.
- Salter's Lode Smock Mill
- Description, history and pictures.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Description and Travel
Directories
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Directories
Historical Geography
Downham West is in Clackclose Hundred.
- Parish outline and location.
- See Parish Map for Clackclose Hundred
- Description of Clackclose Hundred
- 1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
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.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Military Records
Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc
Schools
- Salter's Lode
- Salter's Lode School Log book 1936-1959.
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Voting Registers
See Norfolk Parish Links: Voting Registers
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October 2015