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Brandestone or Brandistone, Norfolk

Historical Description

Brandestone or Brandistone, a parish in Norfolk, 3 miles SE of Reepham, 2 S of Cawston station on the G.E.R., and 10 NW by N of Norwich, which is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Cawston. Acreage, 776; population, 153. Brandestone Hall is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £200 with residence, in the gift of Lord de Eamsey. The church is a small structure of flint in the Perpendicular style.

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 parishBrandistone cum Guton St. Nicholas 
HundredEynsford 
Poor Law unionSt. Faiths 

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 Brandiston:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1562-19021562-19021566-19001562-1902


Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Brandestone or Brandistone from the following:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Norfolk newspapers online:


Visitations Heraldic

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

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