Norfolk: Norwich

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Norwich is the county town of Norfolk. It is on the eastern side of the county, being about 20 miles from the north and east coasts and the southern border with Suffolk, and nearly 50 miles from the western border with Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire.

Cemeteries
Census
Church Directories
Church History
Church Records
Civil Registration
Description and Travel
Directories
Emigration and Immigration
Historical Geography
Jewish History
Maps
Military Records
Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc
Schools
Town Records
Voting Registers

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Cemeteries

See Norfolk Parish Links: Cemeteries

Census

Censuses from 1841

Church Directories

In 1883 the parishes were in the Deanery of Norwich, in the archdeaconry of Norwich.
They could have been in a different deanery or archdeaconry both before and after this date.
There were about 50 parish churches.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

See Church History and Church Records

Church Records

See Church History and 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), the parishes of Norwich were in Norwich Registration District.

Description and Travel

Norwich Web Sites

Photographs of old Norwich: Photographs from the 1930s onwards - many topics.
Norwich, the Old City: History, pictures, events, etc.
This is a link to an archived copy.
Old Norfolk: Norwich: People, places, churches, history, pictures, etc.
This is a link to an archived copy.
Norwich City Council Pages: History, pictures, churches, businesses, maps, museums, etc.

Aspects of Norwich

This is a selection of the many web pages about Norwich - also explore the web sites above.

Extract from Barclay's Complete and Universal English Dictionary 1842: A description of Norwich in 1842.
Streets: Descriptions and pictures.
Yards and Courts: Names, cross references, further links.
Walls and Towers: Descriptions and pictures.
Chapelfield Gardens: History, pictures. etc.
This is a link to an archived copy.
Tombland: Description, history and pictures.
This is a link to an archived copy.

Directories

Directories.

Emigration and Immigration

Moens, William John Charles: The Walloons and their church at Norwich: their history and registers, 1565-1832.
[Lymington, Huguenot Society of London (1), 1887]
Rickwood, Douglas Lincoln: The Norwich Dutch and Walloon Strangers' Book of Orders, 1564-1643.
Part 1: The Norwich Stranger settlement and its archive: (with special reference to the Origin, Compilation and Purpose of the Dutch and Walloon Strangers' Book of Orders.
Part 2: The text transcribed and edited.
[Norwich, University of East Anglia Thesis, 1989]

Historical Geography

The Norwich parishes are in the County of the City of Norwich.

Parish outline and location.: See Parish Map for the County of the City of Norwich

Jewish History

Lipman, Vivian D.: The Jews of medieval Norwich; with an appendix of Latin documents from the Westminster Abbey Muniment Room; and the Hebrew poems of Meir of Norwich (edited by A.M. Habermann).
[London, Jewish Historical Society of England, 1967]

Land and Property

See Norfolk Parish Links: Land and Property

Maps

Modern and Historical Maps: Maps of the parishes.

Military Records

See Norfolk Parish Links: Military Records

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 the Norwich parishes became part of the Norwich Incorporation, and the workhouse was at Norwich.

Schools

Allthorpe-Guyton, Marjorie and Stevens, John: A happy eye: A school of art in Norwich 1845-1982.
[ISBN 0711700281, Norwich, Jarrold, 1982]
City of Norwich School Archives: Pictures, staff, extracts from school magazine, etc.
History of the Norwich School: Description and history.
Harries, Richard; Cattermole, Paul and Mackintosh, Peter: A history of Norwich School: King Edward VI's Grammar School at Norwich.
[ISBN 0951856111 0951856103, Norwich, Friends of Norwich School, 1991]
Saunders, H.W.: A History of the Norwich Grammar School.
[Norwich, Jarrold, 1932]
Norwich High School: Norwich High School, 1875-1950.
[Norwich, Goose Press, 1950?]

Bolingbroke, Leonard George: Schools and scholarship in mediaeval Norwich.
[Norwich, Science Gossip Club, 1908]
Smith, William David: Education and society in Norwich, 1800-1870.
[Norwich, University of East Anglia PhD Thesis, 1978]