Earsham, Norfolk
Historical Description
Earsham, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The parish is in Depwade union, and lies on the river Waveney, and on the Waveney Valley branch of the G.E.R., on which it has a station, 1 mile WSW of Bungay. It has a post office under Bungay; money order and telegraph office, Bungay. Acreage, 3128; population, 572. Earsham Hall was formerly the seat of the Wyndhams, and is now the property of the Meade family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £380 with residence. The church is supposed to stand within the area of a Saxon camp, has a tower and spire, contains monuments of the Gooches, the Buxtons, Wyndhams, Dallings, Meades, and others, and is very interesting. There are some beautiful pieces of old stained glass in the windows, a 14th century piscina, and a well-preserved Perpendicular font, with the seven sacraments carved on the panels. The chancel was restored in 1890, when a handsome reredos and carved choir seats were added.
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 | Earsham All Saints | |
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 Earsham:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1559-1901 | 1559-1901 | 1559-1901 | 1559-1870 |
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 Earsham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Earsham (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Earsham 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.