Spixworth, Norfolk

Historical Description

Spixworth, a village and a parish in Norfolk, 4 miles N by E of Norwich, and 4 NW from Salhouse station on the Cromer branch of the G.E.R. Post town, Norwich; money order and telegraph office, Horsham St Faith's. Acreage, 1235; population, 72. The manor with Spixworth Hall, a fine mansion of red brick standing in a pleasant park, belongs to the Longe family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £273 with residence. The church, which contains some ancient memorials of the Peck and Longe families, is a plain building of rubble in the Early English style. Archbishop Hoadley was rector.

Administration

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

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 Spixworth:

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Spixworth from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Spixworth (St. Peter))

Maps

Online maps of Spixworth 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.