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Skeyton, Norfolk

Historical Description

Skeyton, a parish, with a village, in Norfolk, 3½ miles E from Buxton Lammas station on the East Norfolk section of the G.E.R., and 11 N from Norwich. Acreage, 1303; population, 277. Post town, Norwich, under Swanton Abbott; money order and telegraph office, Buxton Lammas. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £163 with residence. The church, which stands on an eminence, is an edifice of flint in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and a low western tower. There are Wesleyan and Wesleyan Reform chapels.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyNorfolk 
Ecclesiastical parishSkeyton All Saints 
HundredSouth Erpingham 
Poor Law unionAylsham 

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 Skeyton:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1706-19021706-19021706-19011707-1905


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Skeyton from the following:


Maps

Online maps of Skeyton are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Norfolk newspapers online:


Visitations Heraldic

The Visitations of Norfolk 1563, 1589, and 1613 is available on the Heraldry page.

DistrictNorth Norfolk
CountyNorfolk
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtNR10
Post TownNorwich

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