Marlingford, Norfolk

Historical Description

Marlingford, a village and a parish in Norfolk, 5 miles N from Hethersett station on the Thetford and Norwich section of the G.E.R., and 6 W by S from Norwich. There is a post office under Norwich; money order and telegraph office, Honingham. Acreage, 717; population, 233. The manor, with Marlingford Hall, belongs to the Fletcher family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £123 with residence. The church is a building of flint and rubble in the Early English and Decorated styles. It has a Norman doorway, a Norman font, and some ancient memo-a-ials. There are some small charities.

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.

Findmypast, in conjunction with Norfolk Record Office have the following parish records online for Marlingford:

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 Marlingford from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Marlingford 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.