Beetley, Norfolk
Historical Description
Beetley, a parish in Norfolk, 3 miles WSW of North Elmham station on the G.E.R., and 4 N by W of East Dereham, under which it has a post office; money order and telegraph office, Gressenhall. Acreage, 2121; population of the civil parish, 366; of the ecclesiastical, with East Bilney, 508. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of East Bilney, in the diocese of Norwich. The church is a small building of flint in the Early English style. There is also a Primitive Methodist chapel.
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 | Beetley St. Mary | |
Hundred | Launditch | |
Poor Law union | Mitford and Launditch |
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.
Findmypast, in conjunction with Norfolk Record Office have the following parish records online for Beetley:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
---|---|---|---|
1547-1889 | 1547-1889 | 1540-1903 | 1539-1907 |
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 Beetley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Beetley (St. Mary))
Maps
Online maps of Beetley 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.