Norfolk: Emneth

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Modern and Historical Maps of this Parish.

Emneth is about 12 miles S.W. of King's Lynn.

Census

Church Directories

The parish is in the deanery of Wisbech, in the archdeaconry of Wisbech.
The parish church is dedicated to St Edmund.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

The Fen and Marshland Churches: This includes Emneth.
See Walsoken.
Church of St Edmund: Description and pictures.
Church of St Edmund: Picture of the church.

Church Records

Marriages: These are included in Boyd's Marriage Index.
They are not included in Phillimore's Marriage Registers.
Parish Register and Bishop's Transcripts: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials (search main index).

Civil Registration

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

Description and Travel

Emneth Village Pages: Events, organisations, etc.
These appear to have been taken offline. The address was
http://www.thisiswisbech.co.uk/tiw/Villages/emneth.htm

Gazetteers and Directories

Emneth is in Freebridge Marshland hundred.

1839: Pigot's Directory of Cambridgeshire
List of Inns and Hotels, Taverns and Public Houses in Wisbech, Elm and Leverington in Cambridgeshire, with Emneth and Walsoken in Norfolk.
1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
1854: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
1883: Kelly's Directory for Cambridgeshire, Norfolk & Suffolk

Land and Property

Statement of Claims and Enclosure, 1796: See Walpole St Peter
Great Britain. Inclosure Commissioners: Statement of Claims: Marshland Smeeth and Marshland Fen.
Claims for Emneth.
Drawn up in pursuance of the Act of Inclosure, 1796.
[1798]
Great Britain. Inclosure Commissioners: Statement of Claims: Emneth.
Drawn up in pursuance of the Act of Inclosure, 1817.
[1817]
Great Britain: Statute: Emneth Inclosure Act, 1817.
An act for inclosing lands in the parish of Emneth, in the county of Norfolk: 23rd May 1817.
[1817]

Maps

Parish outline and location.: See Parish Map for Wisbech 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 Emneth became part of the Wisbech Union, and the workhouse was at Wisbech in Cambridgeshire.

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