UK Genealogy Archives logo
DISCLOSURE: This page may contain affiliate links, meaning when you click the links and make a purchase, we may receive a commission.

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.

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 parishSouth Pickenham All Saints 
HundredSouth Greenhoe 
Poor Law unionSwaffham 

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:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1694-19021694-19021695-19031694-1902


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:


Maps

Online maps of South Pickenham 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.

DistrictBreckland
CountyNorfolk
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtPE37
Post TownSwaffham

Advertisement

Advertisement