Bixley, Norfolk
Historical Description
Bixley, a village and a parish in Norfolk, 3 miles SE by S of Norwich, which is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Trowse. Acreage, 667; population, 133. Bixley Hall is a handsome edifice built about the middle of last century by Sir Edward Ward. Bixley Lodge is also a pretty country seat. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Earls-Framingham, in the diocese of Norwich; gross joint yearly value, £380 with residence. The church dates from 1272, but has beenjn great part rebuilt; contains a handsome screen and monuments of the Wards, the last of whom was a Countess of Rosebery, and formerly had a shrine of St Wandregesilus, to which pilgrimages were made.
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 | Bixley St. Wandegisilus | |
Hundred | Henstead | |
Poor Law union | Henstead |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
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Civil Registration
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Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Bixley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bixley (St. Wandegisilus))
Newspapers and Periodicals
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- 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.