Shotesham All Saints or High Shotesham, Norfolk
Historical Description
Shotesham All Saints or High Shotesham, a parish, with a village, in Norfolk, 2½ miles ESE of Swainsthorpe station on the Ipswich and Norwich section of the G.E.R., and 6 S by E of Norwich. It has a post office under Norwich; money order and telegraph office, Hempnall. Acreage, 1597; population of the civil parish, 363; of the ecclesiastical, with St Mary and St Martin, 599. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The living is a rectory and a vicarage, united with Shotesham St Mary, in the diocese of Norwich; joint gross value, £483 with residence. The church is a building of flint in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and an embattled western tower. There is a Free Methodist chapel, and there are an hospital for eight poor men, which is sustained from an estate left by Henry Howard, earl of Northampton, in the reign of James I., and some small charities.
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 | Shotesham All Saints | |
Hundred | Henstead | |
Poor Law union | Henstead |
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 Shotesham, All Saints:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1538-1855 | 1538-1855 | 1561-1901 | 1559-1884 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Shotesham All Saints or High Shotesham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Shotesham (All Saints))
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.