Great Hautbois, Norfolk
Historical Description
Hautbois, Great (commonly called Hobbis), a parish in Norfolk, on the river Bure, adjoining Coltishall, and 7 miles NNE of Norwich. There is a station at Coltishall on the G.E.R. The post town is Norwich; money order and telegraph office, Coltishall. Acreage, 608; population of the civil parish, 180; of the ecclesiastical, with Coltishall, 1073. An hospital for poor travellers was founded in the time of Henry HI., by Sir Peter de Alto Bosco, or Hautbois, at the head of what was called Hautbois Causeway. The living is a rectory, now annexed to Coltishall, in the diocese of Norwich. ' The old church having fallen into decay, a new one, on a better site, was built in 1866. A few scattered remains of an hospital for poor travellers are still to be seen.
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 | Hautbois St. Theobald | |
| Hundred | South Erpingham | |
| Poor Law union | Aylsham |
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 Great Hautbois:
| Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1563-1812 | 1563-1812 | 1563-1901 | 1568-1812 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Great Hautbois from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hautbois, Great (St. Theobald))
Maps
Online maps of Great Hautbois 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.