Norfolk: Fakenham

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Modern and Historical Maps of this Parish.

Archives and Libraries

Fakenham Gas Museum: Description, pictures, etc.
Eastern Gas: Fakenham Gasworks.
[1974]

Census

1891: Surname List

Church History

Church of St Peter and St Paul "http://www.fakenham.org.uk/pchurch.htm": This appears to have been taken offline.
Morison, Ernest Frederick: The story of Fakenham church.
[First published Gloucester: British Publishing Co, 1950]
[ISBN: 0950229601, Revised by G.F.S. Gray and Rev. Hugh Buckingham, 1971]

Church Records

Fakenham Marriages 1719-1837: See Phillimore's Marriage Registers, Volume 6.
Parish Register Transcripts: Marriages.
Parish Registers: List of Surnames of People who come from other Parishes
(these people are often known as "Strays")

Description and Travel

Web Sites

Fakenham Town Pages "http://www.fakenham.org.uk/": These appear to have been taken offline.
Fakenham: Description, history and pictures.
Fakenham: Description, pictures, etc.
Fakenham: Description, events, businesses, pictures, etc.

Other Resources

Lamont, Gerald: Swaffham to Fakenham: a portrait in old picture postcards.
[ISBN 1857700406, Seaford: S.B. Publications, 1993]
Lingwood, Lemmon: The illustrated guide to Wells-next-the-Sea, including Holkham, Walsingham, Fakenham, and Districts: containing full description of Lord Nelson's birthplace.
[London: Jarrold, (18-?)]

Gazetteers and Directories

1854: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk

History

Baldwin, Jim: Fakenham: Town on the Wensum.
[Cromer, Poppyland Publishing, 1982]
Baldwin, Jim; and Van Damme, Ellen: Another look at Fakenham: a look at the town in the first thirty years of this century.
[ISBN 0950906018, Fakenham, 1984]
Baldwin, Jim; and Tickle, Alan: Memories of Fakenham Lancaster.
[ISBN: 0948899042, Fakenham, 1991]
Fletcher, Elaine: A Norfolk quiverful: Celebrating 100 years of archery in the Fakenham area.
[ISBN: 0948400234, Dereham, Larks Press, c1994]
Gray, George F.S.; Morison, Ernest F. and Buckingham, Hugh: The story of Fakenham and its church.
[ISBN 0950229601, Fakenham, 1971]

Land and Property

Inclosure: See Colkirk

Maps

Map of the town centre "http://www.fakenham.org.uk/tcmap2.htm": This appears to have been taken offline.

Schools

Baldwin, Jim: Hard forms and homework: A short history of schools in Fakenham.
[ISBN: 0953606406, Fakenham High School and College, c1999]
Eckersley, Stanley: Fakenham Grammar School 1923-1973.
[Fakenham, 1973]

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