Ashill, Norfolk
Historical Description
Ashill, a parish in Norfolk, 3½ miles NW of Watton station on the G.E.R., and 6 SE of Swaffham. It has a post and money order office under Watton, which is the telegraph office. Acreage, 3030; population, 600. Part of the land is common, and some points command a fine view. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; value, £985. The church is Later English, has a flint tower, and is good. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.
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 | Ashill St. Nicholas | |
Hundred | Wayland | |
Poor Law union | Swaffham |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
We have transcribed the Marriages at Ashill St. Nicholas, 1756-1837
The register dates from the year 1539.
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 Ashill:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1538-1902 | 1538-1902 | 1538-1912 | 1538-1901 |
Churches
Church of England
St. Nicholas (parish church)
The church of St. Nicholas is a building of flint in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave with clerestory, south aisle, south porch and a low western tower containing 6 bells: an organ was erected in 1867: the nave and chancel are divided by a carved oak screen: the church was restored, the aisle roof renewed, and that of the nave repaired in 1867, at the sole cost of the Rev. Bartholomew Edwards M.A. late rector: there are 310 sittings.
Methodist
Primitive Methodist Chapel
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 Ashill from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ashill (St. Nicholas))
Maps
Online maps of Ashill 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.