Norfolk: Great Snoring

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Modern and Historical Maps of this Parish.

Great Snoring is about 3 miles N.N.E. of Fakenham.
See also Little Snoring.

Census

Walsingham Union Workhouse was in this parish.
1841: Great Snoring and Walsingham Union Workhouse
1851: Great Snoring and Walsingham Union Workhouse
1891: Great Snoring: Surname List
1891: Walsingham Union Workhouse: Surname List

Church Directories

The parish is in the Deanery of Walsingham, in the archdeaconry of Norwich.
The parish church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of the Virgin Mary: Description and pictures.

Church Records

Marriages 1560-1837: See Phillimore's Marriage Registers, Volume 6.
Marriages 1560-1902: From parish registers.
Marriages 1801-1837
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), Great Snoring was in Walsingham Registration District.

Description and Travel

Great Snoring and Little Snoring: Description, history, pictures, maps, churches, censuses, parish records, etc.
Great Snoring: Description and pictures.
Great Snoring Mill: Description, history and pictures.

Directories

Historical Geography

Great Snoring is in North Greenhoe hundred.

Maps

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

Military Records

Roll of Honour: World Wars 1 and 2.
Roll of Honour: World Wars 1 and 2.

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Great Snoring became part of the Walsingham Union, and the workhouse was in this parish.

Walsingham Union: Parishes in the union, their arrangements for the poor before 1834, etc.
Walsingham Union and Workhouse: Description from White's Directory of Norfolk, 1845.
Walsingham Union and Workhouse: Description and pictures.
Walsingham Union and Workhouse: Description.

Voting Registers

See Norfolk Parish Links: Voting Registers

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