Botesdale, Norfolk
Historical Description
Botesdale ( Botolp's Dale) is a hamlet in the parish of Redgrave, and also a township consisting of Botesdale, with portions of the parishes of Rickinghall Superior and Rickinghall Inferior adjoining, in Suffolk. The hamlet stands 4½ miles W of Mellis station on the G.E.R., and 6 SW of Diss, in Norfolk. It consists chiefly of one long street, has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Diss, and a bank. Acreage of township, 1269; population, 455. A grammar-school was founded in 1576 by Sir N. Bacon, but under a scheme sanctioned in 1881 the funds are now applied in the form of exhibitions to enable boys from elementary schools to obtain a higher grade of education. The former school is now used as a church. The living is a chapelry annexed to the rectory of Redgrave, in the diocese of Norwich. Botesdale Lodge is a fine modern building of brick, standing in the midst of extensive grounds.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Suffolk | |
Civil parish | Redgrave | |
Hundred | Hartismere | |
Poor Law union | Hartismere |
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 Botesdale from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Botesdale)
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.