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Repps cum Bastwick, Norfolk

Historical Description

Repps-cum-Bastwick, a small village and a parish in Norfolk, 4½ miles NNE of Acle, and 1¼ mile SW from Potter Heigham station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway. Post town, Yarmouth; money order and telegraph office, Martham. Acreage, 1257; population, 259. It has a parish council consisting of five members. The manor belongs to the Lombe family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £157 with residence. Patron, the Governor of Norwich Grammar School. Repps Church is a small building of flint in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, and a western tower-cylindrical at the base, with an octagonal upper stage. It was restored. in 1894. Bastwick Church is in ruins. There is a small Primitive Methodist chapel.

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 parishRepps with Bastwick St. Peter 
HundredWest Flegg 

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 Repps with Bastwick:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1563-18121563-18121563-18351563-1812


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 Repps cum Bastwick from the following:


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.

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