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.
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 | Repps with Bastwick St. Peter | |
Hundred | West 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:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1563-1812 | 1563-1812 | 1563-1835 | 1563-1812 |
Civil Registration
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Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Repps cum Bastwick from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Repps, with Bastwick (St. Peter))
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.