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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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyNorfolk 
Ecclesiastical parishBixley St. Wandegisilus 
HundredHenstead 
Poor Law unionHenstead 

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

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Newspapers and Periodicals

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Visitations Heraldic

The Visitations of Norfolk 1563, 1589, and 1613 is available on the Heraldry page.

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