Norfolk: Wicklewood

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Modern and Historical Maps of this Parish.

Wicklewood is about 3 miles W. of Wymondham.

Cemeteries

See Norfolk Parish Links: Cemeteries

Census

Forehoe Incorporation Workhouse was in this parish.
1881: Forehoe Incorporation Workhouse
1891: Wicklewood: Surname List
1891: Forehoe Incorporation Workhouse: Surname List

Church Directories

In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Hingham, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
The parish church is dedicated to St Andrew and All Saints.
There were originally two churches, but that dedicated to St Andrew was in ruins in the 14th century.
Nearby Churches of all denominations.

Church History

Church of St Andrew and All Saints: Description, history, minister, services, picture, etc.
Church of St Andrew and All Saints: Description and pictures.

Church Records

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), Wicklewood was in Forehoe Registration District.

Description and Travel

Wicklewood Village Pages: Wicklewood in wartime, parish magazine, pictures, etc.
Wicklewood and Crownthorpe Parish Council: Parish councillors, minutes, newsletters, etc.
Wicklewood Hackford Road Towermill: Description, history and pictures.
Wicklewood High Street Towermill: Description, history and pictures.
Wicklewood Grain Windmill: Picture of the mill.
Apling, Harry: Wicklewood Mill.
[Norfolk Windmills Trust, 1982]
Wade, Denis: Wicklewood Mill - recollections.
[Norwich, Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society, in "Journal of the Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society", vol.1, no.5, July 1973]

Directories

Historical Geography

Wicklewood is in Forehoe hundred.

Land and Property

Great Britain. Inclosure Commissioners: Statement of Claims: Wicklewood (46).
Drawn up in pursuance of the Act of Inclosure, 1808.
[1808]
Great Britain: Statute: Wicklewood Inclosure Act, 1808.
An act for dividing lands in the parish of Wicklewood, in the county of Norfolk: 27th May 1808.
[London, George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1808]

Maps

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

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1776 Wicklewood became part of the Forehoe Incorporation, and the workhouse was in this parish.

Forehoe Incorporation: Parishes in the union, etc.
Forehoe Incorporation and Workhouse: Description from White's Directory of Norfolk, 1845.
Forehoe Incorporation and Workhouse: Description and pictures.
Forehoe Incorporation: Description, cases, etc.
Garner, Mary: The Early History of Wicklewood House of Industry and the Forehoe Corporation 1770-1837.
[University of East Anglia Thesis (Diploma in Local History), 1999]

Voting Registers

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