Aldborough, Norfolk
Historical Description
Aldborough, a parish in Norfolk, on the river Bure, 4½ miles N by W of Aylsham station on the G.E.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Norwich. Acreage, 795; population, 323. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross yearly value, £202. The church was restored in 1849. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel. A fair for stock is held here on 21 and 22 June, ' or when these days fall on Saturday or Sunday, on the following Monday and Tuesday. New Hall is a country residence near Aldborough.
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 | Aldborough St. Mary | |
| Hundred | North Erpingham | |
| Poor Law union | Erpingham |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
We have transcribed the Marriages at Aldborough St. Mary, 1754-1837
The parish register dates from the year 1538.
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 Aldborough:
| Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1551-1915 | 1551-1915 | 1540-1922 | 1513-1901 |
Churches
Church of England
St. Mary the Virgin (parish church)
The church of St. Mary the Virgin is an ancient building of flint, with stone dressings, in the Early Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and a turret erected in 1906, at a cost of £200, and containing one bell: the stained east window is a memorial to the Rev. J. G. Nelson, rector, d. 1882, erected at a cost of £100: there are several tablets to the Gay family, dating from 1792, and a brass to Anne Herward, wife of Robert Herward, ob. 1st January, 1485, besides two brass effigies, one of a knight in armour and the other a civilian in furlined robe and carrying a dagger: under the font, there is the matrix of a missing brass, and an inscription corresponding to the vacant space to Richard Ricards esq, 1492 (or 3); another recorded brass, dated 1427, is either lost or hidden under the floor of a gallery: the rood stairs, two piscinae and sedilia and a stoup remain: the church was restored in 1849 at a cost of £750.
Brethren
Gospel Hall
The Gospel Hall was erected in 1906, in which the Plymouth Brethren held their services.
Methodist
Primitive Methodist Chapel
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Aldborough from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Aldborough (St. Mary))
Maps
Online maps of Aldborough 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.