Itteringham, Norfolk

Historical Description

Itteringham, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village stands on the river Bure, 4 miles NW from Aylsham, and 3½ from Corpusty station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway, and has a post office under Norwich; money order and telegraph office, Aylsham. The parish comprises 1463 acres; population, 302. The property belongs. chiefly to the Earl of Orford and the Marchioness of Lothian. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Mannington, in the diocese of Norwich; Joint net value,, £219. Patron, the Earl of Orford. The church consists of nave and chancel, with a tower, and is good. The ruins of a small chapel are near the church. There are also Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.

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.

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 Itteringham from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Itteringham (St. Mary))

Maps

Online maps of Itteringham 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.