Besthorpe, Norfolk
Historical Description
Besthorpe, a parish in Norfolk, on the Roman Road and the G.E.R., 1 mile E of Attleborough, under which it has a post office, and at which there is a money order and telegraph office, and a railway station. Acreage, 2191; population, 487. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £173. The church, a cruciform edifice of flint in the Decorated style, was restored in 1883. Besthorpe Hall is an ancient country mansion of red brick, originally erected in 1590, but which has been much altered and modernised.
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 | Besthorpe All Saints | |
Hundred | Shropham | |
Poor Law union | Wayland |
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 Besthorpe:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1559-1915 | 1559-1915 | 1559-1836 | 1558-1897 |
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 Besthorpe from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Besthorpe (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Besthorpe 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.