Weston Longville, Norfolk
Historical Description
Weston Longville, a parish in Norfolk, 2 miles from Lenwade station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway, and 8 miles E by N of Dereham. Post town, Attlebridge, under Norwich; money order and telegraph office, Lenwade. Acreage, 2777; population, 389. There is a parish council of seven members and a chairman. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £600 with residence. Patron, New College, Oxford. The church is Late Decorated and Later English, and the chancel was restored in 1880. There is a Free Methodist chapel.
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 | Weston-Longville All Saints | |
| Hundred | Eynsford | |
| Poor Law union | St. Faith |
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 Weston Longville:
| Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1660-1877 | 1660-1877 | 1660-1835 | 1660-1928 |
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 Weston Longville from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Weston-Longville (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Weston Longville 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.