Winfarthing, Norfolk
Historical Description
Winfarthing, a parish, with a village, in Norfolk, 3 miles NW of Burston station on the G.E.R., and 4 NNW of Diss. It has a post office under Diss; money order and telegraph office, Banham. Acreage, 2670; population, 543. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor belonged once to the Crown, went in the time of Henry III. to Sir W. Munchesny, was for many years the property of the Earl of Albemarle, but belongs now to Lord Egerton of Tatton. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £300 with residence. Patron, Lord Egerton of Tatton. The church is an ancient building of flint in the Perpendicular style, and has been restored. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. In the parish is the famous Winfarthing oak, supposed to be over 1000 years old. It is considered the largest in England, except that at Cowthorpe, in Yorkshire.
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 | Winfarthing St. Mary | |
Hundred | Diss | |
Poor Law union | Guiltcross |
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.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Winfarthing from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Winfarthing (St. Mary))
Maps
Online maps of Winfarthing 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.