Roudham, Norfolk
Historical Description
Roudham, a parish, lying in a vale, in Norfolk, near the Peddar Way, 1½ mile E of Roudham Junction station on the Thetford and Norwich section of the G.E.R., and 6 miles NE from Thetford. Post town, East Harling. Acreage, 2125; population, 168. There is a parish council consisting of five members and a chairman. The manor belongs to the Buxtons. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £63. The church has long been in ruins.
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 | Roudham St. Andrew | |
Hundred | Shropham | |
Poor Law union | Wayland |
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 Roudham:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1663-1888 | 1663-1888 | 1538-1837 | 1539-1922 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Roudham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Roudham (St. Andrew))
Maps
Online maps of Roudham 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.