Martham, Norfolk
Historical Description
Martham, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village stands on rising ground above marshes, 3½ miles from the coast, and 9 NW by N of Yarmouth, and has a station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway; is a large place, with several handsome houses and some good shops; and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Yarmouth. It formerly had a fair on the last Tuesday of July and the following day. The parish comprises 2690 acres; population, 1177. The parish council, under the Local Government Act, 1894, consists of eleven members. The manor belongs to the Wiseman family. Martham Hall, Martham House, and the Grange are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £255 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Norwich. The church, a fine building of flint, chiefly Early Perpendicular, comprises nave, aisles, S porch, and lofty fine tower; includes a chancel in florid Gothic, rebuilt in 1855 at a cost of nearly £8000, in memorial of the RevJ. Dawson, and containing an altar-tomb to him; has very fine stained glass windows by Hardman, and good specimens of old stained glass; and contains a richly-sculptured, octagonal, ancient font, and a brass of 1487. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels, an educational charity scheme superseding three former charities, and 76 acres of poor's lands. Martham Broad is in the N of the parish.
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 | Martham St. Mary | |
Hundred | West Flegg |
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 Martham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Martham (St. Mary))
Maps
Online maps of Martham 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.