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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.

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 parishDidlington St. Michael 
HundredSouth Greenhoe 
Poor Law unionSwaffham 

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:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1717-18121717-18121730-18351729-1808


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:


Maps

Online maps of Didlington 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.

DistrictBreckland
CountyNorfolk
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtIP26
Post TownThetford

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