Irstead, Norfolk
Historical Description
Irstead, a village and a parish in Norfolk, on Barton Broad, near the river Ant, 11 miles NE from Norwich, and 4 NNW from Wroxham station on the G.E.R. Post town and money order office, Neatishcad, under Norwich; telegraph office, Wroxham. Acreage, 902 of land and 168 of water; population, 136. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £164 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Norwich. The church is a small building of flint and stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles. It has a Later English font and a memorial window to William of Wykeham, who was rector of this parish in 1347. There are 41 acres of land belonging to the Irstead trustees, .the rent of which is expended on the poor.
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 | Irstead St. Michael | |
Hundred | Tunstead |
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 Irstead:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1531-1903 | 1531-1903 | 1531-1904 | 1531-1915 |
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 Irstead from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Irstead (St. Michael))
Maps
Online maps of Irstead 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.