Norfolk: Gressenhall
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Modern and Historical Maps of this Parish.
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 & Views,
Women's Institutes Churchyard Project, 1980-1981]
Census
Church Directories
- In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Brisley, in the archdeaconry of Norwich.
- The parish church is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.
There was also a chapel at Rougholm, dedicated to St Nicholas.
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Nearby Churches of all denominations.
Church History
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Description and pictures.
- Chapel of St Nicholas
- Description and pictures.
- Gressenhall Methodist Church
- Address, minister, services, picture, etc.
- 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
- Carrington, A.C. and Carrington, B.I.
- Directory of Gressenhall.
[ISBN 0950763136, East Dereham: Gressenhall News & Views, 1983]
Gazetteers and Directories
Gressenhall is in Launditch hundred.
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
- Parish outline and location.
- See Parish Map for Mitford and Launditch Registration District, 1836
- Modern and Historical Maps
- Maps of the parish and nearby places.
Periodicals
- Carrington, A. and Carrington, B.
- Gressenhall News & 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 Workhouse
- Description from White's Directory of Norfolk, 1845.
- Mitford and Launditch Union Parishes
- List of parishes in the union.
- Mitford and Launditch Union and Workhouse
- Description and pictures.
- Mitford and Launditch Union 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]
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