Norfolk: Sandringham

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Modern and Historical Maps of this Parish.

Sandringham is about 8 miles N.E. of King's Lynn.

Cemeteries

See Norfolk Parish Links: Cemeteries

Census

1891: Surname List

Church Directories

In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Lynn Norfolk, in the archdeaconry of Norwich.
The parish church is dedicated to St Mary Magdalene.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of St Mary Magdalene: Description and picture.
Church of St Mary Magdalene: Picture of the church.
Ashton, Patrick: St Mary Magdalene, Sandringham Church and the gardens of Sandringham House.
[ISBN 0853720657, Pitkin Pride of Britain series, 1992]

Church Records

Marriages 1561-1812: See Phillimore's Marriage Registers, Volume 2.
Marriages: These are included in Boyd's Marriage Index.

Civil Registration

For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1930 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), Sandringham was in Freebridge Lynn Registration District.

Description and Travel

Dutt, William A.: The King's Homeland: Sandringham and north-west Norfolk; with an introduction by H. Rider Haggard.
[London, published for the Homeland Association by A. & C. Black, 1904]
Lingwood, Lemmon: Jarrold's Guide to Hunstanton.
The illustrated handbook to Hunstanton and neighbourhood, including Sandringham, Castle Rising, King's Lynn, Heacham, West Newton, and Snettisham.
[Norwich, Jarrold, 1900s]
Massen, Simon: Sandringham Past: A fascinating compilation of picture postcards taken in the early 1900s.
[The Author, 1992]
Ralph, Walter (photographer): Souvenir of Sandringham: Album of 12 postcards.
[Dersingham, Walter Ralph, 1930s]

Directories

Historical Geography

Sandringham is in Freebridge Lynn hundred.

History

Day, James Wentworth: Kings Lynn and Sandringham through the ages.
[Ipswich, East Anglian Magazine Ltd, 1977]
Jones, C. Rachel (Mrs Herbert Jones): Sandringham: past and present with some historic memorials of the Norfolk coast.
[Jarrold, 1888]

Land and Property

Sandringham House and Estate: Description, events, pictures, etc.
Sandringham House and Estate: Pictures of the estate.
Baker, David J.: The Royal Gunroom at Sandringham.
[ISBN 071488040x, Phaidon Christie's, 1989]
Cathcart, Helen: Sandringham: The Story of a Royal Home.
[London, W.H. Allen, 1964]
Cresswell, Louisa: Eighteen years on the Sandringham Estate; by "the Lady Farmer".
[London, Temple Company, 1887]
Hepworth, Philip: Royal Sandringham.
[ISBN 0903619253, Norwich, Wensum Books Ltd, 1978]
Messent, Claude J.W.: The Architecture on the Royal Estate of Sandringham: an architectural history with reproductions of pencil sketches.
[ISBN 0950132519, Blofield, 1974]
Norwich Mercury: Names of the inhabitants of the County of Norfolk who presented the Norwich Gates to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, April 7th, 1863.
[Norwich, Norwich Mercury, 1863]
Rush, Len: Captain of the Queen's Flight.
(Len Rush and the Queen's racing pigeons).
[ISBN 0747500134, London, Bloomsbury, 1987]
Winton, Michael J.: Sandringham House: A royal home for Edward and Alexandra.
[The Author, 1975]

Maps

Faden's Map of Norfolk: Extract showing Sandringham.
Parish outline and location.: See Parish Map for Freebridge Lynn Registration District, 1836
Modern and Historical Maps: Maps of the parish and nearby places.

Military Records

Roll of Honour: World Wars 1 and 2.
McCrery, Nigel: All the King's Men: One of the greatest mysteries of the First World War finally solved.
[ISBN 0671018310, Pocket Books, 1999]
[Originally published as: The Vanished Battalion, Simon & Schuster, 1992]
Williamson, Tom: The Disappearance of the King's Company in Gallipoli: The day the hills caught fire.
[ISBN 072231261x, Stockwell, 1979]

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Sandringham became part of the Freebridge Lynn Union, and the workhouse was at Gayton.

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