Horsey next the Sea, Norfolk
Historical Description
Horsey-next-the-Sea, a village and a parish in Norfolk, on the coast, near the North river, 10¾ miles NNW from Yarmouth, and 4 N from Martham station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway. There is a post office under Yarmouth; money order and telegraph office, Martham. Acreage, 2071, of which 129 are water, forming Horsey Mere; population, 155. The land of this parish was formerly marsh, but it was drained and wonderfully improved by the late Mr E. Eising. He also constructed a road to Somerton, which is of great value to the inhabitants of this parish. The Hall is the seat of the Eising family. The quondam parish of Little Waxham, whose church and village were swept away by the sea, is adjacent. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £105 with residence. The church is ancient but good, and has a thatched roof and a tower, round below and octagonal above. There is a fuel allotment.
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 | Horsey-next-the-Sea All Saints | |
Hundred | Happing |
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 Horsey:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1559-1906 | 1559-1906 | 1572-1848 | 1559-1809 |
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 Horsey next the Sea from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Horsey-next-the-Sea (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Horsey next the Sea 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.