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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.

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 parishEgmere St. Edmund 
HundredNorth Greenhoe 
Poor Law unionWalsingham 

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:


Maps

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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.

CountyNorfolk

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