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Norfolk: King's Lynn

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Modern and Historical Maps of this Parish.

King's Lynn is about 42 miles W. by N. of Norwich.
It is also known as Lynn and Lynn Regis.
See also North Lynn, South Lynn and West Lynn.

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Copyright © Pat Newby.
January 2008


Archives and Libraries

True's Yard Fishing Museum
The museum of the old fishing community of the North End of King's Lynn.
King's Lynn Borough Archive
Summary of holdings.

Business and Commerce Records

Braithwaite, David
Savage of King's Lynn: Inventor of machines and merry-go-rounds.
[Cambridge, Stephens, 1975]
Clark, Ronald H.
Savages Limited, engineers, St. Nicholas Ironworks, King's Lynn: A short history 1850-1964.
[King's Lynn, Savages, 1964]

Cemeteries

Hovell, Ethel Mary Wilkin
A complete list of the inscriptions on the slabs, tablets and monuments in the chapel of St Nicholas, King's Lynn existing in the year 1937.
[King's Lynn, Oswell, 1937]
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Cemeteries

Census

See also Norfolk Parish Links: Censuses

Church Directories

Church History

Church of St Margaret
Description and pictures.
Church of St Margaret
Description, history and pictures.
Church of St Margaret
Pictures.

Chapel of St Nicholas
Description and pictures.
Chapel of St Nicholas
Description, history and pictures.

The Fen and Marshland Churches
This includes King's Lynn St Margaret and St Nicholas.
See Walsoken.

Red Mount, or Our Lady's Chapel
Description and pictures.
Chapel of St James
Description and picture.
Church of St John
Description and pictures.

Catholic Church of the Annunciation
Description and pictures.

London Road Methodist Chapel
Description and picture.
London Road Methodist Chapel
Description, minister, services, location, picture, etc.

Highgate Methodist Chapel
Description, minister, services, location, picture, etc.

Baptist Church
Services, etc.

Church Records

Archdeacon's Transcripts
Marriages at the Church of St Margaret.
Marriages
These are not included in Boyd's Marriage Index or Phillimore's Marriage Registers.
Ministers of the Church of St Margaret
16th-20th centuries.
Week-Day Prayers
Statement by Thomas Pyle.
Beloe, Edward Milligen
Extracts from the Chapel Warden's accounts (St Nicholas Chapel, King's Lynn) from the year 1616 to the date of the restoration of His Most Sacred Majesty King Charles the Second.
[King's Lynn, 1926]
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Church Records

Civil Registration

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

Court Records

Beloe, Edward Milligen
The Guildhall Court of King's Lynn.
[King's Lynn, 1923]

Description and Travel

Web Sites

These include history, pictures, tourism, organisations, businesses, news, events, etc.
King's Lynn Online
History, events, pictures, businesses, etc.
King's Lynn
Description, history and pictures.
Picture Tour of King's Lynn
Description and pictures.

Published Works

Anckorn, Gordon
A West Norfolk camera: King's Lynn, Wells & Wisbech in old photographs.
[ISBN 0906798086, Ashgrove Press, 1981]
Hornsey, Brian
Ninety years of cinema in Kings Lynn.
[ISBN 1873969260, Stamford, Fuchsiaprint, 1993]
Taylor, William
The pictorial guide to King's Lynn, Norfolk.
[King's Lynn, 1848]
Winton, Michael John
King's Lynn as it was, 1865-1918, with illustrations.
[ISBN 0902907182, Nelson, Hendon Publishing Co. Ltd, 1972]
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Description and Travel

Gazetteers and Directories

King's Lynn is in Freebridge Lynn hundred.

History

History of Medieval Lynn
Buildings, government, economy, etc.
History of King's Lynn
History.
History of King's Lynn
History and pictures.
Beloe, Edward Milligen
Freebridge Marshland Hundred and the making of Lynn.
[Norwich, Goose, 1896]
Beloe, Edward Milligen
Our borough: our churches: (King's Lynn, Norfolk): with an afterwork, The art of the Renaissance in King's Lynn.
[Cambridge, Macmillan & Bowes, 1899]
Day, James Wentworth
Kings Lynn and Sandringham through the ages.
[Ipswich, East Anglian Magazine Ltd, 1977]
Hillen, Henry J.
History of the Borough of King's Lynn.
[Norwich, East of England Newspaper Co., 1907]
[ISBN 0715813056 0715813064 0715813072, Wakefield, EP Publishing, Facsimile reprint of 1st edition, 1978]
Mackerell, Benjamin
The history and antiquities of the flourishing corporation of King's Lynn in the county of Norfolk.
[London, Birt, 1738]
Metters, George Alan
The Rulers and merchants of King's Lynn in the early seventeenth century.
[Norwich, University of East Anglia Thesis, 1982]
Owen, Dorothy M. (ed)
The Making of King's Lynn: a documentary survey (c1090-c1400).
[ISBN 0197260276, Published for the British Academy by the Oxford University Press, Records of social and economic history, New series, 9, 1984]
Parker, Vanessa
The making of Kings Lynn: secular buildings from the 11th to the 17th century.
[ISBN 0900592583, Phillimore, 1971]
Parkin, Charles
The topography of Freebridge Hundred and Half in the county of Norfolk: containing the history and antiquities of the borough of King's Lynn.
[King's Lynn, W. Whittingham, 1762]
Perrott, Vera
Life and leisure in Victoria's Lynn.
[ISBN 0952597217, Seaford, Vista Books, 1995]
Perrott, Vera
Victoria's Lynn: Boom and Prosperity.
[ISBN 0952597209, Seaford, Vista, 1995]
Richards, Paul
King's Lynn.
[Chichester, Phillimore, 1990]
Richards, William
The history of Lynn (from the earliest accounts to the present time). 2 vols.
[Lynn, Whittingham, 1812]
Rodliffe, Rosemary and Stan
Glimpses of Fiddaman's Lynn.
Life in Lynn during the latter half of the 19th century, seen through the eyes of James Fiddaman as he rises from humble origins at Fakenham to become the wealthy host of Fiddaman's hotel in Norfolk street.
Extracts and notes, including a list of surnames.
[ISBN 0953935604, 2000]
Taylor, William
The antiquities of King's Lynn, Norfolk.
[Lynn, Thew, 1844]
Tuck, James
Let's look at Lynn [ISBN 0951419005, 1988]
Winton, Michael John
Vintage King's Lynn (c1870-1945).
[ISBN 0860670082, Nelson, Hendon Publishing Co., 1976]
Yaxley, Susan
The Siege of King's Lynn, 1643 (Civil War).
[ISBN 094840020X, Dereham, Larks, 1993]

Maps

Town Plan of King's Lynn
Showing streets, buildings, river, etc.
Map of the Borough of Kings Lynn, 1102-1537
From E. M. Beloe's "Our Borough: Our Churches: Kings Lynn, Norfolk", 1899.
Map of Kings Lynn, 1581
from H. Harrod's "Report on the Deeds & Records of the Borough of King's Lynn, 1874.
Plan of Lynn, 1812
From William Richards' "The history of Lynn", 1812.
Parish outline and location.
See Parish Map for King's Lynn Registration District, 1836
Modern and Historical Maps
Maps of the parish and nearby places.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Maps

Military Records

Roll of Honour
World Wars 1 and 2.

Names, Personal

Aickman
See Norfolk People and Families
Kempe
See Norfolk People and Families
Vancouver
See Norfolk People and Families

Newspapers

See Norfolk Newspapers. For example: the Lynn Advertiser and the West Norfolk Herald.

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

The workhouse was in this parish.

King's Lynn Union Parishes
List of parishes in the union.
King's Lynn Poor Law Union and Workhouse
Description and pictures.
King's Lynn Workhouse, at the Chapel of St James
Description, history and pictures.
This is a link to an archived copy.

Schools

Avis, Anthony
A reminiscence of King Edward VII Grammar School, King's Lynn, 1938-1945.
[Ilkley?, 1991]
Avis, Anthony
Supplement to "A reminiscence of King Edward VII Grammar School, King's Lynn".
[Ilkley?, 1993]

Social Life and Customs

King's Lynn Waites
Medieval, Tudor and Renaissance Town Band.
The King's Morris
The Morris Dancing team of King's Lynn.

Societies

Glasier, J.S.B.
(Freemasons) History of Philanthropic Lodge, King's Lynn, no. 107.
[King's Lynn, George Oswell, 1911]

Town Records

(No author)
A Calendar of the freemen of Lynn 1292-1836.
[Norwich, Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, 1913]
Harrod, Henry
Report on the deeds and records of the Borough of King's Lynn.
[King's Lynn, Thew and Son, 1874]

Voting Registers