Topcroft, Norfolk

Historical Description

Topcroft, a parish, with a scattered village, in Norfolk, 3 miles from Homersfield station on the G.E.R., and 6 WNW of Bungay. It has a post and money order office under Bungay; telegraph office, Hempnall. Acreage, 1917; population, 344. There is a parish council of seven members and a chairman. The living is a rectory in The diocese of Norwich; net value, £175 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Norwich. The church is an ancient edifice of flint in the Perpendicular style, and was restored in 1876. There is a Congregational chapel.

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 Topcroft:

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Topcroft from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Topcroft 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.