Lammas, Norfolk
Historical Description
Lammas, a parish, with a village, in Norfolk, on the river Bare, 1 mile E from Buxton Lammas, 4½ miles SE of Aylsham station on the G.E.R., and 9 NNE of Norwich. Post town, Hevingham, under Norwich; money order and telegraph office, Buxton. Acreage, with Little Hautbois, 840; population, 281. The manor belongs to the Lnbbock family. The living is a rectory, united with that of Little Hautbois, in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £197 with residence. The church is a building of flint in the Early English style, which waa restored in 1887, and consists of nave and chancel, with S porch and low embattled tower. There is also a Wesleyan chapel. Little Hautbois is a decayed parish, 2 miles SE from Buxton Lammas station, and 8½ NE from Norwich.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Norfolk | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Lammas St. Andrew | |
Hundred | South Erpingham | |
Poor Law union | Aylsham |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Norfolk Record Office, have images of the Parish Registers for Norfolk online.
Findmypast, in conjunction with Norfolk Record Office have the following parish records online for Lammas with Little Hautbois:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1539-1910 | 1539-1910 | 1539-1901 | 1538-1812 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Lammas from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Lammas (St. Andrew))
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Norfolk newspapers online:
- Norwich Mercury
- Norfolk Chronicle
- Diss Express
- Thetford & Watton Times and People's Weekly Journal
- Norfolk News
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Norfolk 1563, 1589, and 1613 is available on the Heraldry page.