Freethorpe, Norfolk
Historical Description
Freethorpe, a village and a parish in Norfolk, near the river Yare, 2 miles N of Eeedham station on the G.E.R., and 4 S by E of Acle, with a post office under Norwich; money order and telegraph office, Reedham. Acreage, 904 of land and 145 of water; population of the civil parish, 416; of the ecclesiastical, 1274. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Reedham, in the diocese of Norwich; joint net yearly value— £429 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Norman style. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
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 | Freethorpe All Saints | |
Hundred | Blofield | |
Poor Law union | Blofield |
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 Freethorpe with Wickhampton:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1758-1870 | 1758-1870 | 1755-1922 | 1758-1885 |
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 Freethorpe from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Freethorpe (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Freethorpe 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.