Buxton, Norfolk
Historical Description
Buxton, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village stands on the river Bure, 4 miles SSE of Aylsham, and 8 N of Norwich, under which It has a post, money order, and telegraph office, and a station called Buxton-Lamas on the G.E.R. A Roman station is supposed to have been here, and Roman urns and other Roman relics have been found. The parish comprises 1316 acres; population of the civil parish, 546; of the ecclesiastical, with Oxnead, 616. The living is a vicarage, united with the rectory of Oxnead, in the diocese of Norwicli; joint net yearly value, £350 with residence. The church is ancient, has a square tower, and was restored in 1881-82. There are a Baptist and a Wesleyan chapel, and some useful charities.
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 | Buxton St. Andrew | |
Hundred | South Erpingham | |
Poor Law union | Aylsham |
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 Buxton:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
---|---|---|---|
1665-1896 | 1665-1896 | 1675-1837 | 1475-1872 |
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 Buxton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Buxton (St. Andrew))
Maps
Online maps of Buxton 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.