Brooke, Norfolk
Historical Description
Brooke, a village and a parish in Norfolk, on an affluent of the river Yare, 4½ miles WNW of Loddon. The nearest station is Trowse, a suburb of Norwich, distant 6 miles. The village is 7 miles from Norwich, under which it has a post and money order office; telegraph office, Loddon. Acreage of parish, 2153; population, 629. Brooke Hall, Brooke House, and Brooke Lodge are the chief residences, and the first of these is in edifice in the Grecian style, built in 1830. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £152 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is an an ancient building of flint and stone in the Early English style, and there is also a Baptist 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 | Brooke St. Peter | |
Hundred | Clavering | |
Poor Law union | Loddon and Clavering |
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 Brooke:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1559-1901 | 1559-1901 | 1559-1837 | 1558-1879 |
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 Brooke from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Brooke (St. Peter))
Maps
Online maps of Brooke 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.