Helhoughton, Norfolk
Historical Description
Helhoughton, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village stands on the river Wensum, 5 miles SW by W from Fakenham, and three-quarters of a mile SW from Eaynham Park station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway. It has a post office under Fakenham; money order office, East Rudham; telegraph office, West; Raynham. The parish comprises 1687 acres; population of the civil parish, 355; of the ecclesiastical, 511. The manor belongs to the Marquess Townshend. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of South Raynhain, in the diocese of Norwich; joint net yearly value, £240. Patron, the Marquess Townshend. The church, a plain building of flint, in the Early English style, was restored in 1890. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
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 | Heloughton All Saints | |
Hundred | Gallow | |
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.
Findmypast, in conjunction with Norfolk Record Office have the following parish records online for Helhoughton:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1557-1915 | 1557-1915 | 1540-1900 | 1556-1905 |
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 Helhoughton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Heloughton (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Helhoughton 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.