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Oulton, Norfolk

Historical Description

Oulton, a parish, with a village, in Norfolk, near the rives Bure, 3¼ mile WNW of Aylsham station on the East Norfolk branch of the G.E.R., 1 mile N from Bluestone station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway, and 11 miles ENE of Elmham. It has a post office under Aylsham (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Aylsham. Acreage, 1866; population, 372. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor belongs to the Lytton-Bulwes family. Oulton Hall is an ancient mansion and the seat of the Bolton family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £153 with residence. The church is an ancient building of brick and stone in the Early English style of architecture, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and an embattled western tower. A Congregational chapel was built in 1725, and has a neat residence for its minister and a graveyard.

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 parishOulton St. Peter and St. Paul 
HundredSouth Erpingham 
Poor Law unionAylsham 

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 Oulton (Suffolk):

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1564-19011564-19011566-19151564-1901


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Oulton from the following:


Maps

Online maps of Oulton 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.

DistrictBroadland
CountyNorfolk
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtNR11
Post TownNorwich

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