Norfolk: Needham

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Modern and Historical Maps of this Parish.

Needham is about 7 miles E. of Diss.
It is also called Fish Needham.
Needham Market is about 20 miles away, in Suffolk.

Census

1891: Surname List

Church Directories

The parish is in the deanery of Redenhall, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
The parish church is dedicated to St Peter.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of St Peter: Description and pictures.
Bryant, Thomas Hugh: Norfolk Churches, Needham St Peter.
[undated]

Church Records

Parish Registers: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials.
Archdeacon's Transcripts or Bishop's Transcripts: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials.
Campling, Arthur: Index of Marriages, Needham, 1643-1754.
[Norwich Local Studies Library, Handwritten document, 1930s]
Marriages: These are included in Boyd's Marriage Index.
They are not included in 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), Needham was in Depwade Registration District.

Description and Travel

Needham Mill: Description and pictures.
Bush, Albert: Needham Notes, or the Memoirs of a Miller's Son.
[1988]
Extract from Needham Notes.

Directories

Historical Geography

Needham is in Earsham hundred.

History

Mather, Cuthbert: Some Notes on Needham.
[ISBN: 095039470X, Halesworth, Halesworth Press, 1974]

Maps

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

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Needham became part of the Depwade Union, and the workhouse was at Pulham St Mary Magdalen (Pulham Market).

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