Shereford or Sheringford, Norfolk
Historical Description
Shereford or Sheringford, a parish in Norfolk, on the river Wensum, 2 miles W from Fakenham Town station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway, and 3 W from Fakenham station on the Wymondham and Wells section of the G.E.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Pakenham. Acreage, 872; population of the civil parish, 96; of the ecclesiastical, with Toft Trees, 193. The Marquis Townshend is lord of the manor. The living is a rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Toft Trees, in the diocese of Norwich; joint net value, £323 with residence. Patron, Marquis Townshend. The church is a small plain building of flint in the Norman and Early English styles.
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 | Shereford St. Nicholas | |
Hundred | Gallow | |
Poor Law union | Walsingham |
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 Shereford:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1722-1915 | 1722-1915 | 1722-1903 | 1721-1917 |
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 Shereford or Sheringford from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Shereford (St. Nicholas))
Maps
Online maps of Shereford or Sheringford 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.