Norfolk: Great Melton

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Modern and Historical Maps of this Parish.

Great Melton is about 7 miles S.W. of Norwich.
The name may also be found as Melton Magna or Melton St Mary and All Saints.
See also Little Melton and Melton Constable.

Archives and Libraries

Great Melton Documents: Documents listed by the Hethersett Archive.

Cemeteries

See Norfolk Parish Links: Cemeteries

Census

1891: Surname List

Church Directories

In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Humbleyard, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
The parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
There was also a church dedicated to St Mary, but it was demolished, apart from the tower, about 1880.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of All Saints: Description and pictures.
Church of St Mary: Description and pictures of the ruins.

Church Records

Parish Registers: Baptisms.
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), Great Melton was in Henstead Registration District.

Description and Travel

See Norfolk Parish Links: Description and Travel

Directories

Historical Geography

Great Melton is in Humbleyard hundred.

Land and Property

Great Britain: Statute: Great Melton Inclosure Act, 1818.
An act for inclosing lands within the parish of Great Melton, otherwise Melton Saint Mary, and All Saints, in the county of Norfolk: 8th May 1818.
[London, George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1818]
[Wymondham, Mitchell, independently printed edition, 1818]

Maps

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

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Great Melton became part of the Henstead Union, and the workhouse was at Swainsthorpe.
Overseers' Accounts, 1681-2
Overseers' Accounts, 1711-2
Overseers' Accounts, 1746
(These are links to archived copies).

Voting Registers See Norfolk Parish Links: Voting Registers

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