Alburgh, Norfolk
Historical Description
Alburgh, a village and a parish in Norfolk, on an affluent of the river Waveney, 1 mile N from Homersfield station on the Waveney Valley railway, and 3½ miles NNE of Harleston, with a post office under Harleston, which is the telegraph office; money order office, Denton. Acreage, 1585; population, 556. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £350 with residence. Patron, St John's College, Cambridge. The church has a large Norman porch.
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 | Alburgh All Saints | |
Hundred | Earsham | |
Poor Law union | Depwade |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
We have transcribed the Marriages at Alburgh All Saints, 1754-1812.
The register dates from the year 1540.
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 Alburgh:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1541-1901 | 1541-1901 | 1541-1900 | 1540-1901 |
Churches
Church of England
All Saints (parish church)
The church of All Saints is a structure of flint and stone, mainly in the Perpendicular style, though portions are Early English: it consists of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower with four light pinnacles containing 8 bells, rehung in 1908: in the chancel are memorial windows to Malcolm George Lohr, d. 31 Dec. 1872; and to Barnabas Bond, d. 23 Dec. 1872; and a brass inscribed to the Rev. Charles William Lohr B.A. rector here 1871-97: the lower part of the old screen, which displays some interesting "gesso" work, has been repaired, and made the foundation of a new reredos in memory of the Rev. C. W. Lohr: the church was thoroughly restored in 1876 at a cost of £1,340, from plans by R. M. Phipson esq, F.S.A. and affords 200 sittings.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Alburgh from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Alburgh (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Alburgh 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.