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Wendling, Norfolk

Historical Description

Wendling, a parish, with a village, in Norfolk, with a station on the G.E.R., 121 miles from London, and 4 W of East Dereham. It has a post office under Dereham; money order office, Little Frencham; telegraph office, Dereham. Acreage, 1472; population of the civil parish, 393; of the ecclesiastical, with Longham, 696. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. A Premonstratensian abbey was founded here before 1267 by W. de Wendling, and was given at the dissolution to R. Hogan. The living is a rectory, annexed to Longham. The church is a small building in the Early English style. There is a 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 CountyNorfolk 
Ecclesiastical parishWendling St. Peter and St. Paul 
HundredLaunditch 
Poor Law unionMitford and Launditch 

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 Wendling:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1539-18871539-18871550-18371539-1812


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Wendling from the following:


Maps

Online maps of Wendling 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 districtNR19
Post TownDereham

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