Ashwicken or Ashwyken, Norfolk
Historical Description
Ashwicken or Ashwyken, a parish in Norfolk, 1½ mile NW of East Winch station on the Lynn and Dereham railway, and 5½ miles E by S of King's Lynn. Post town, East Winch-under-Lynn, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1336; population of the civil parish, 111; of the ecclesiastical district, 323. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Leziate, in the diocese of Norwich; value, £520. The church is an ancient building of flint and stone. Ashwicken Hall is the chief residence.
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 | Ashwicken All Saints | |
Hundred | Freebridge-Lynn | |
Poor Law union | Freebridge-Lynn |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register, which is very imperfect, dates from about 1700.
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Norfolk Record Office, have images of the Parish Registers for Norfolk online.
Churches
Church of England
All Saints (parish church)
The church of All Saints is a small but ancient structure of flint and stone, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a western tower containing one bell: a stained window was erected by subscription in 1879, in memory of the Rev. John Freeman, rector here from 1841, and there are two marble monuments to the late John and Ann Groom, of this parish: an oak reredos was erected in 1904 as a memorial to Mrs. A. J. Groom, wife of the then rector, and in 1904 an organ was provided: the church affords 150 sittings.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Ashwicken or Ashwyken from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ashwicken (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Ashwicken or Ashwyken are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
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.