Warham All Saints and St Mary, Norfolk

Historical Description

Warham All Saints and St Mary, two parishes in Norfolk, 2 and 2½ miles SSE of Wells station on the G.E.R., with a post office under Wells; money order and telegraph office, Wells. Area of Warham All Saints, 1121 acres; population, 267; of Warham St Mary, 2069 acres; population, 73. The manors belong to the Earl of Leicester. There is a Danish camp of 9 acres. The livings are conjoint rectories in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £600 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Leicester. The churches are small buildings of flint in the Early English style. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.

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 County	Norfolk
Ecclesiastical parish	Warham All Saints
Ecclesiastical parish	Warham St. Mary
Hundred	North Greenhoe
Poor Law union	Walsingham

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

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Findmypast, in conjunction with Norfolk Record Office have the following parish records online for Warham:

Baptisms	Banns	Marriages	Burials
1559-1906	1559-1906	1558-1919	1558-1920

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Warham All Saints and St Mary from the following:

Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Warham (St. Mary))

Newspapers and Periodicals

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Visitations Heraldic

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