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West Somerton, Norfolk

Historical Description

Somerton, West, a parish in Norfolk, 8¾ miles NW by N of Yarmouth, and 1½ mile NE from Martham station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway. It has a post office under Yarmouth; money order and telegraph office, Martham. Acreage, 1208; population, 253. The manor belongs to the Cuddon-Fletcher family. Somerton Hall is pleasantly situated upon an eminence commanding good marine views. The celebrated Norfolk giant, Robert Hales, was born in this parish in 1820. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £120. The church is an ancient building of stone, with a thatched roof, in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, containing the remains of some mural paintings which are more than 600 years old.

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 parishWest Somerton St. Mary 
HundredWest Flegg 

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 West Somerton:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1736-19011736-19011737-18361736-1812


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 West Somerton from the following:


Maps

Online maps of West Somerton 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.

DistrictGreat Yarmouth
CountyNorfolk
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtNR29
Post TownGreat Yarmouth

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