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Corpusty, Norfolk

Historical Description

Corpusty, a village and a parish in Norfolk, on the river Bure, with a station on the Eastern and Midland railway, 6 miles NW of Aylsham. Post town, Norwich; money order office, Saxthorpe; telegraph office at the railway station. Acreage, 1027; population, 384. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; value, £55. The church, which is a small building of flint in the Perpendicular style, has a square tower. A considerable sum has been spent during the last few years in the restoration and embellishment of the church. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.

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 parishCorpusty St. Peter 
HundredSouth Erpingham 
Poor Law unionAylsham 

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.


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 Corpusty from the following:


Maps

Online maps of Corpusty are available from a number of sites:


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.

DistrictNorth Norfolk
CountyNorfolk
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtNR11
Post TownNorwich

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