Norfolk: Little Melton

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Modern and Historical Maps of this Parish.

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.

Archives and Libraries

Little Melton: General Documents: Documents listed by the Hethersett Archive.
Little Melton: Church 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.
In some records, the parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
In other records, it is dedicated to St Mary and All Saints.
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.

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.

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.

Gazetteers and Directories

Little Melton is in Humbleyard hundred.

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]

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 Little Melton became part of the Henstead Union, and the workhouse was at Swainsthorpe.

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