Lingwood, Norfolk
Historical Description
Lingwood, a parish, with a village, in Norfolk, 3 miles N of Buckenham, and 8 E of Norwich. It has a station on the Norwich and Yarmouth section of the G.E.R., and a post office under Norwich; money order and telegraph office, Bur-lingham. Acreage, 668; population of the civil parish, 421; of the ecclesiastical, with Burlingham St Edmund, 508. The manor belongs to the Burroughes family. The Blofield Union Workhouse is in this parish. The living is a vicarage, united with the rectory of Burlingham St Edmund, in the diocese of Norwich; joint net value, £270 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Later English style. There is also 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 | Lingwood St. Peter | |
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.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Lingwood from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Lingwood (St. Peter))
Maps
Online maps of Lingwood 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.