Drayton, Norfolk
Historical Description
Drayton, a village and a parish in Norfolk, near the river Wensum, 4¼ miles NW of Norwich, with a station on the Great Northern and Midland Railway Joint line, and a post and money order office under Norwich; telegraph office at the railway station. Acreage, 1353; population of the civil parish, 420; of the ecclesiastical, with Hellesdon, 1593. Some of the inhabitants are employed in a paper mill in the adjoining parish of Taverham. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Hellesdon, in the diocese of Norwich; joint gross yearly value, £700 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Norwich. The church is a building of flint in the Transitional Decorated style. There are Baptist and Free-Methodist chapels.
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 | Drayton St. Margaret | |
Hundred | Taverham | |
Poor Law union | St. Faith |
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 Drayton:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1559-1902 | 1559-1902 | 1561-1901 | 1558-1903 |
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 Drayton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Drayton (St. Margaret))
Maps
Online maps of Drayton 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.