Norfolk: Ludham

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Modern and Historical Maps of this Parish.

Ludham is about 13 miles N.W. of Great Yarmouth.

Cemeteries

The Monumental Inscriptions in the Hundred of Happing (Walter Rye).: The parishes covered include Ludham.
See Brumstead
Cemetery of the Church of St Catherine: Names on gravestones.

Census

Church Directories

In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Waxham, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
The parish church is dedicated to St Catherine.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of St Catherine: Description, history and pictures.
Church of St Catherine: Description and pictures.
Ludham Community Archive: St Catherine's Church: photographic collection.
[Ludham Community Archive, CD]
Cooke, William Henry: The Abbey of St Benet at Holm, and Ludham legends.
[Stalham, 1912]
[The Abbey was in the parish of Horning]
Ludham Methodist Church: Description, minister, services, location, picture, etc.

Church Records

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 1869 (and for the censuses in 1851 and 1861), Ludham was in Tunstead and Happing Registration District.

This district was renamed on 1st January 1870 and, from then until 1930, Ludham was in Smallburgh Registration District for civil registration and for the censuses of 1871 to 1901.

Description and Travel

Ludham Community Archive: Description, history, map, pictures, church, airfield, war memorial, booklets, CDs, etc.
Ludham: Pictures, map, etc.
Ludham: Description and pictures.
Ludham History: History and map.
Ludham Community Archive: History of Ludham - in photographs, documents, recorded memories and video clips.
[Ludham Community Archive, CD]
Ludham Community Archive: Village Chatter 1 - memories of the people of Ludham.
[Ludham Community Archive, CD]
Ludham Community Archive: Discover Ludham - a walking tour around the village.
[Ludham Community Archive, Booklet]
Ludham High Tower Mill: Description, history and pictures.
Ludham How Hill Tower Mill: Description, history and pictures.
Ludham Lovers Lane Post Mill: Description, history and map.
Ludham Malthouse Lane Post Mill: Description and map.
Ludham Yarmouth Road Post Mill: Description and history.
Ludham Bridge North Drainage Mill: Description and picture.
Ludham Bridge South Drainage Mill: Description and picture.
Ludham Cold Harbour Mill: Description, history and pictures.
Ludham St Benet's Level Drainage Mill: Description, history and pictures.

Gazetteers and Directories

Ludham is in Happing hundred.

History

Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society: A Survey of Ludham.
[Norwich, Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society, in "Journal of the Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society", vol.III. no.1, 1981]
Snelling, Joan M.: Ludham, A Norfolk Village, 1800-1900.
[ISBN 0953529304, 1999]

Land and Property

Carson, Gladys M.: Norwich Bishopric Estates: Manors of Ludham Bacon and Walton Hall. Extracts from the Manorial Court Rolls.
[Typescript in Norwich Local Studies Library, 1987]
Snelling, Joan M.: Ludham Hall, Norfolk.
[Typescript in Norwich Local Studies Library, 1995]
How Hill Trust: Norfolk Broads Study Centre: description, pictures, etc.
How Hill Estate: Description, pictures, etc.
Holmes, David: The How Hill Story.
[Ludham, How Hill Trust, 1980s]

Maps

Parish outline and location.: See Parish Map for Tunstead and Happing Registration District, 1836
Modern and Historical Maps: Maps of the parish and nearby places.

Military History

Ludham Airfield: Description, pictures, etc.
Ludham Airfield: Description and pictures.
Ludham Airfield: Description, history and pictures.
Foster, Alan J.: Airfield Focus No 46: Ludham Airfield.
[ISBN 1870384881, GMS Enterprises]

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Ludham became part of the Tunstead and Happing (or Smallburgh) Union, and the workhouse was at Smallburgh.

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