Wroxham, Norfolk
Historical Description
Wroxham, a parish, with a village, in Norfolk, on the river Bure, with a station on the G.E.R., 7 miles NE of Norwich. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 1414 of land and 124 of water; population of the civil parish, 415; of the ecclesiastical with Salhouse, 1054. Wroxham Hall and Wroxham House are the chief residences. The Bure here forms a fine broad, well stocked with fish, and is crossed by a neat bridge. There are large malting establishments. The living is a vicarage, united with Salhouse, in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £240 with residence. The church is an ancient building with a tower.
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 | Wroxham St. Mary | |
Hundred | Taverham | |
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 Wroxham:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1558-1901 | 1558-1901 | 1559-1836 | 1558-1905 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Wroxham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wroxham (St. Mary))
Maps
Online maps of Wroxham 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.