Wramplingham, Norfolk
Historical Description
Wramplingham, a parish in Norfolk, 3½ miles N by E of Wymondham station on the G.E.R. Post town, Wymondham. Acreage, 856; population, 172. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £230 with residence. The church is a small and ancient edifice of stone in the Early English style, and has been restored.
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 | Wramplingham St. Peter and St. Paul | |
Hundred | Forehoe |
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 Wramplingham:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1567-1812 | 1567-1812 | 1567-1904 | 1566-1812 |
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 Wramplingham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wramplingham (St. Peter and St. Paul))
Maps
Online maps of Wramplingham 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.