South Pickenham, Norfolk
Historical Description
Pickenham, South, a parish in Norfolk, on the river Wissey, 4½ miles SSE of Swaffham station, and about 3 SW from holme Hale station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Swaffham; money order and telegraph office, Swaffham. Acreage, 1870; population, 169. The manor, with Pickenham Hall, a fine mansion standing in an extensive park, belongs to the Applewhaite family, who are the sole landowners. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £153 with residence, in the gift of the Applewhaite family. The church is a small edifice of stone in the Early English style, is good, has a tower, and contains monuments of the Chutes.
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 | South Pickenham All Saints | |
Hundred | South Greenhoe | |
Poor Law union | Swaffham |
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 South Pickenham:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1694-1902 | 1694-1902 | 1695-1903 | 1694-1902 |
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 South Pickenham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Pickenham, South (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of South Pickenham 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.