Fishley, Norfolk
Historical Description
Fishley, a parish in Norfolk, united with Upton in 1831 tfor civil purposes, bounded on the E by the river Bure, 1 mile 'from Acle station on the G.E.R., and 11 miles E of Norwich. Post town, Norwich; money order and telegraph office, Acle. Acreage of Upton with Fishley, 2171; population, 530; of the ecclesiastical parish of Fishley, 18. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £126 with residence. The church is of flint with embattled round tower, in the Norman and Early English 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 | Fishley St. Mary | |
Hundred | Walsham | |
Poor Law union | Blofield |
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 Fishley:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1855-1911 | 1855-1911 | 1869-1924 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Fishley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Fishley (St. Mary))
Maps
Online maps of Fishley 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.