East Tuddenham, Norfolk

Historical Description

Tuddenham, East, a parish, with a village, in Norfolk, 5 miles from Thuxton station on the G.E.R., and 6 E by S of East Dereham. It has a post office under East Dereham; money order office, Hockering; telegraph office, Mattishall. Acreage, 2093; population of the civil parish, 474; of the ecclesiastical, with Honingham, 790. There is a parish council of six members and a chairman. The living is a vicarage, annexed to Honingham. The church is a small building of flint in mixed styles of architecture, and has been restored. There is a Free Methodist chapel.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for East Tuddenham from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Tuddenham, East (All Saints))

Maps

Online maps of East Tuddenham 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.