Houghton St Giles, Norfolk
Historical Description
Houghton-in-the-Dale or Houghton St Giles, a parish in Norfolk, on the river Stiffkey, 1 mile SSW from New Walsingham station on the G.E.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, New Walsingham (R.S.O.) Acreage, 1564; population of the civil parish, 177; of the ecclesiastical, with Little Walsingham, 1113. The manor belongs to the Lee-Wamer family. The living is a vicarage, annexed to Little Walsingham, in the diocese of Norwich; joint net value, £173 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1879. A small ancient chapel on the W side of the parish belonged to Walsingham Abbey. This chapel is commonly called the " Shoe Chapel." It was here that the pilgrims to Walsingham left their shoes when making the pilgrimage barefoot. It was restored in 1894 as a chapel in connection with a religious community.
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 Houghton St Giles:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1558-1904 | 1558-1904 | 1558-1902 | 1558-1908 |
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Maps
Online maps of Houghton St Giles 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.