Barwick, Norfolk
Historical Description
Barwick, a parish in Norfolk, 2 miles E from Docking station on the G.E.R., 4 WSW of Burnham, and 9 WNW of Fakenham. Post town, Lynn; money order and telegraph office, Docking. Acreage, 1302; population, 63. The living is a vicarage, united with the rectory of Stanhoe, in the diocese of Norwich. The site and part of the foundations alone remain of the ancient church. The site is kept carefully enclosed, and the outhne of the former building can be traced by the inequalities in the ground.
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 | Barwick St. Mary | |
Hundred | Smithdon | |
Poor Law union | Docking |
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.
Civil Registration
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Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Barwick from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Barwick (St. Mary))
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.