Norfolk: Worstead

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Modern and Historical Maps of this Parish.

Worstead is about 7 miles E. of Aylsham.

Census

Church Directories

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

Church History

Church of St Mary: Description, history and pictures.
Church of St Mary: Picture of the church.
Long, Anthony: Worstead Church (St Mary), Norfolk.
[Worstead, The Church, 1970s]

Church Records

Marriages: These are included in Boyd's Marriage Index.
They are not included in Phillimore's Marriage Registers.
Parish Registers: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials.

Civil Registration

For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1869 (and for the censuses in 1851 and 1861), Worstead was in Tunstead and Happing Registration District.

This district was renamed on 1st January 1870 and, from then until 1930, Worstead was in Smallburgh Registration District for civil registration and for the censuses of 1871 to 1901.

Description and Travel

Worstead Village Pages: Description, history, events, parish council, etc.
Worstead: Description and pictures.
Briggate Mill at Worstead: Description, history and pictures.
Worstead Railway Station: Pictures of the station.
Rendall, Ian (editor): Worstead Woven, a Village Compendium.
[Worstead, Worstead Festival, 2000]

Gazetteers and Directories

Worstead is in Tunstead hundred.

1883: Kelly's Directory for Cambridgeshire, Norfolk & Suffolk

Land and Property

Great Britain: Statute: Worstead Enclosure Act, 1821.
An act for dividing and allotting lands in the parish of Worstead, in the county of Norfolk.
[George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1821]

Maps

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

Military Records

Roll of Honour: World Wars 1 and 2.

Occupations

Allison, Keith John: The Wool Supply and the Worsted Cloth Industry in Norfolk in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
[University of Leeds Dissertation, 1955]
Lipson, Ephraim: The History of the Woollen and Worsted Industries.
[The Histories of English Industries, London, A. & C. Black, 1921]

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc

After 1834 Worstead became part of the Tunstead and Happing (or Smallburgh) Union, and the workhouse was at Smallburgh.

Schools

Worstead Primary School: Picture, etc.

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