Norfolk: Little Melton
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Little Melton is about 5 miles S.W. of Norwich.
The name may also be found as Melton Parva.
See also Great Melton
and Melton Constable.
Cemeteries
See Norfolk Parish Links: Cemeteries
Census
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Censuses
Church Directories
- In 1883 the parish was in the
Deanery of Humbleyard, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
It could have been in a different deanery or archdeaconry both
before and after this date.
- In some records, the parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
In other records, it is dedicated to St Mary and All Saints.
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Nearby Churches of all denominations.
Church History
- Church of St Mary and All Saints
- Description and pictures.
- Wall Paintings in the Church of All Saints:
- The Annunciation
Warning Against Idle Gossip
- Little Melton Mission Hall
- Little Melton Mission Hall.
[Little Melton, The Mission, 1883]
Church Records
- Norfolk and Norwich Genealogical Society
- The Parish Registers of Norfolk: Little Melton, 1734-1837,
transcribed and indexed.
[Norwich, Norfolk and Norwich Genealogical Society,
The parish registers of Norfolk monograph series no.28, 1989]
- Parish Register Transcripts
- Baptisms 1813-1880
- Marriages
- These are not included in Boyd's Marriage Index or Phillimore's
Marriage Registers.
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), Little Melton was in
Henstead Registration District.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Civil Registration
Description and Travel
- Little Melton Parish Council
- Parish council, church, organisations, history, map, pictures, etc.
- Little Melton History Group
- Little Melton, the Story of a Norfolk Village.
[ISBN 0954557107, Little Melton Community Trust, 2003]
- Little Melton Mill
- Description, history and pictures.
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Description and Travel
Directories
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Directories
Historical Geography
Little Melton is in Humbleyard Hundred.
- Parish outline and location.
- See Parish Map for Humbleyard Hundred
- Description of Humbleyard Hundred
- 1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
Land and Property
- Great Britain: Statute
- Little Melton Inclosure Act, 1814.
An act for inclosing lands in the parish of Melton Parva,
otherwise Little Melton, in the county of Norfolk.
[London, J. Dorington, independently printed edition, 1814]
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Land and Property
Maps
- Modern and Historical Maps
- Maps of the parish.
Military Records
See Norfolk Parish Links: Military Records
Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc
Voting Registers
See Norfolk Parish Links: Voting Registers
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Copyright © Pat Newby.
May 2007