Mundford, Norfolk
Historical Description
Mundford, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village stands on the river Wissey, 4½ miles NNE of Brandon station on the Ely and Thetford section of the G.E.R., and 8 NW from Thetford; is a seat of petty sessions, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.), a good inn, and a bridge. The parish comprises 2056 acres; population, 298. The manor and most of the property belong to the Stepliens family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £107 with residence. The church is a plain building of flint in the Early English style, and there is a small We&leyan 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 | Mundford St. Leonard | |
Hundred | Grimshoe | |
Poor Law union | Thetford |
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 Mundford:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1699-1884 | 1699-1884 | 1700-1837 | 1699-1920 |
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 Mundford from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Mundford (St. Leonard))
Maps
Online maps of Mundford 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.