Coltishall, Norfolk
Historical Description
Coltishall, a large and important parish in Norfolk, on the river Bure, with a station on the G.E.R., 7 miles NE of Norwich. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Norwich, a fair on Whit-Monday, and a considerable trade in mailing, corn, and coal. There are also some extensive lime works. Acreage, 1190; population, 893. The living is a rectory, consolidated in 1880 with that of Great Hautbois, in the diocese of Norwich; joint value, £553 with residence. The church is a building of flint in the Early English style, with an embattled western tower. There are two chapels belonging to the United Methodists and Wesleyans. Coltishall and Great Hautbois are united for ecclesiastical and school-board purposes, but are separate in other respects.
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 | Coltishall St. John the Baptist | |
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 Coltishall:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1558-1901 | 1558-1901 | 1558-1901 | 1558-1902 |
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 Coltishall from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Coltishall (St. John the Baptist))
Maps
Online maps of Coltishall 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.