Norfolk: Gressenhall

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Gressenhall is about 3 miles N.W. of East Dereham.

Cemeteries

Carrington, A.C.: A record of the monumental inscriptions in the church and churchyard of St Mary, Gressenhall, with plan.
[ISBN 0950763101, Gressenhall, Gressenhall News and Views, Women's Institutes Churchyard Project, 1980-1981]

Census

Mitford and Launditch Union Workhouse was in this parish.
1881: Mitford and Launditch Union Workhouse
1891: Gressenhall: Surname List
1891: Mitford and Launditch Union Workhouse: Surname List
1901: Gressenhall: Surname List
1901: Mitford and Launditch Union Workhouse: Surname List

Church Directories

In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Brisley, in the archdeaconry of Norwich.
It could have been in a different deanery or archdeaconry both before and after this date.
The parish church is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.
There was also a chapel at Rougholm, dedicated to St Nicholas.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of St Mary the Virgin: Description and pictures.
Chapel of St Nicholas: Description and pictures.
Methodist Church: Minister, services, picture, etc.
Follow the link to the home page, then search for the church.
Jolly, Cyril: The Story of Gressenhall Methodist Church, or God's Cottage.
[Gressenhall, 1985]

Church Records

Purple, Jennifer J.: Parish Registers of St Mary's Church, Gressenhall, Norfolk.
Transcribed and indexed.
Marriages: These are not included in Boyd's Marriage Index or Phillimore's Marriage Registers.

Civil Registration

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

Description and Travel

Gressenhall Water Mill: Description, history and pictures.
Gressenhall Smock Mill: Description.
Puddy, Eric: The history of Gressenhall Mill and Mill House.
[Ipswich, East Anglian Magazine, 1966]

Directories

1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
1850: Hunt's Directory of East Norfolk with Part of Suffolk
1854: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
1883: Kelly's Directory for Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk
Carrington, A.C. and Carrington, B.I.
Directory of Gressenhall.
[ISBN 0950763136, East Dereham, Gressenhall News and Views, 1983]

Historical Geography

Gressenhall is in Launditch Hundred.

Parish outline and location.: See Parish Map for Launditch Hundred
Description of Launditch Hundred: 1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk

Land and Property

Great Britain: Statute: Beetley, Great Bittering and Gressenhall Inclosure Act, 1774.
An act for dividing, allotting and inclosing, the open and common fields, crofts, brecks and other half year closes, in the parishes of Beetley, Great Bittering and Gressenhall, in the county of Norfolk within the liberty of Sheepwalk, called Beetley Sheepwalk; and for dividing, allotting and inclosing certain commons and waste lands, within the said parish of Beetley.
[1774]
Great Britain. Inclosure Commissioners: Statement of Claims: Gressenhall and Great Bittering (79), and East Bilney (25).
Drawn up in pursuance of the Act of Inclosure, 1811.
[1811]
Great Britain: Statute: Gressenhall, East Bilney and Great Bittering Inclosure Act, 1811.
An act for inclosing lands in the parishes of Gressenhall, East Bilney, and Great Bittering, in the county of Norfolk: 4th April 1811.
[1811]

Maps

Modern and Historical Maps: Maps of the parish.

Military Records

See Norfolk Parish Links: Military Records

Periodicals

Carrington, A. and Carrington, B.: Gressenhall News and Views.
[ISSN 02614308, Gressenhall, 1977-]

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Gressenhall became part of the Mitford and Launditch Union, and the workhouse was in this parish.

Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse: Description, events, opening times, etc.
Mitford and Launditch Union: Parishes in the union, their arrangements for the poor before 1834, etc.
Mitford and Launditch Union and Workhouse: Description from White's Directory of Norfolk, 1845.
Mitford and Launditch Union and Workhouse: Description and pictures.
Mitford and Launditch Union and Workhouse: Staff, inmates, plan of the buildings, etc.
Pope, Stephen: Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse.
[ISBN 0946148740, Cromer, Poppyland Publishing, 2006]
Pope, Stephen: Gressenhall Workhouse Laundry.
[Norwich, Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society (NIAS), in NIAS Journal vol.7 no.5, 2005]
Reid, Andy: Gressenhall Workhouse, an historical introduction.
[Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service, 2002]
Reid, Andy: The Union Workhouse: A Study Guide for Teachers and Local Historians.
Includes the Mitford and Launditch Union at Gressenhall, the Depwade Union at Pulham Market, and the Loddon and Clavering Union at Heckingham.
[ISBN 0850339146, Chichester, Phillimore, for the British Association for Local History, 1994]

Voting Registers

See Norfolk Parish Links: Voting Registers

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