Brockdish, Norfolk
Historical Description
Brockdish, a village and a parish in Norfolk, on the river Waveney, 4 miles SW by W of Harleston station on the G.E.R., and 6 E of Diss. There is a post and money order office under Scole; telegraph office, Harleston. Acreage of parish, 1092; population, 377. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £245 with residence. The church is an ancient building of flint in the Early English style. In the S aisle there is a curious old altar tomb, and the lower portion of the chancel screen is preserved in good condition. The tower, erected in 1865, contains 6 good bells. There is also a Free Methodist chapel. Thorpe Abbotts, The Grove, the Grange, and the Red House are chief residences. Brockdish Hall, now a farmhouse, is a very interesting old place.
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 | Brockdish St. Peter And St. Paul | |
Hundred | Earsham | |
Poor Law union | Depwade |
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 Brockdish:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1558-1902 | 1558-1902 | 1559-1901 | 1558-1915 |
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 Brockdish from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Brockdish (St. Peter And St. Paul))
Maps
Online maps of Brockdish 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.