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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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyNorfolk 
Ecclesiastical parishIrstead St. Michael 
HundredTunstead 

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:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1531-19031531-19031531-19041531-1915


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:


Maps

Online maps of Irstead are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Norfolk newspapers online:


Visitations Heraldic

The Visitations of Norfolk 1563, 1589, and 1613 is available on the Heraldry page.

DistrictNorth Norfolk
CountyNorfolk
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtNR12
Post TownNorwich

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