Seething, Norfolk
Historical Description
Seething, a parish, with a pleasant village, in Norfolk, 5½ miles N by W of Bungay station on the Waveney Valley section of the G.E.R., and 9 S from Norwich. It has a post office under Norwich; money order office, Brooke; telegraph office, Loddon. Acreage, 1675; population, 358. The manor belongs to Viscount Canterbury. The living is a vicarage annexed to that of Mnndham, in the diocese of Norwich; joint gross value, £200 with residence. Patron, Norwich Hospital. The church is a small but ancient edifice of flint and stone in the Norman style, having a thatched nave and a round western tower.
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 | Seething St. Margaret | |
Hundred | Loddon | |
Poor Law union | Loddon and Clavering |
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 Seething:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1561-1901 | 1561-1901 | 1561-1902 | 1561-1902 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Seething from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Seething (St. Margaret))
Maps
Online maps of Seething 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.