Mautby, Norfolk
Historical Description
Mautby, a parish in Norfolk, near the navigable river Bure, 5½ miles NW of Yarmouth station on the G.E.R., and 3 W from Caister station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway. Post town, Yarmouth; money order office, Filby; telegraph office, Caister. Acreage, 1935; population, 112. The manor and all the land belong to the Fellowes family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £525 with residence. The church is a small. building of flint in the Early English style, has a tower, partly circular, partly octangular, and contains some old monuments to the Mautbys, formerly lords of the manor.
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 | Mautby St. Peter and St. Paul | |
Hundred | East 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.
Findmypast, in conjunction with Norfolk Record Office have the following parish records online for Mautby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1663-1812 | 1663-1812 | 1663-1901 | 1646-1812 |
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 Mautby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Mautby (St. Peter and St. Paul))
Maps
Online maps of Mautby 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.