Didlington, Norfolk
Historical Description
Didlington, a parish in Norfolk, on the river Wissey, 5½ miles SE by E from Stoke Ferry station on the G.E.R. Post town, Brandon; money order and telegraph office, North-wold. Acreage, 1875; population, 125. Didlington Hally the seat of the Tyssen-Amhurst family, is a chief residence. The living is a vicarage, united with the rectory of Colveston, in the diocese of Norwich; joint gross yearly value, £154. The church is a building of stone in the Early English and-later styles.
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 | Didlington St. Michael | |
Hundred | South Greenhoe | |
Poor Law union | Swaffham |
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 Didlington with Colveston:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1717-1812 | 1717-1812 | 1730-1835 | 1729-1808 |
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 Didlington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Didlington (St. Michael))
Maps
Online maps of Didlington 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.