Egmere, Norfolk
Historical Description
Egmere, a parish, consisting of a single farm and a few cottages, in Norfolk, 2½ miles W of Walsingham town and station on the G.E.R. Post town, and money order and telegraph office, New Walsingham (E.S.O.) Acreage, 1251; population. 111. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory o f Waterden, in the diocese of Norwich; joint gross yearly va½ue, £200. Patron, the Earl of Leicester. There is no chu½'ch.
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 | Egmere St. Edmund | |
Hundred | North Greenhoe | |
Poor Law union | Walsingham |
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.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Egmere from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Egmere (St. Edmund))
Maps
Online maps of Egmere 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.