Mundham, Norfolk
Historical Description
Mundham, a parish, with a small village, in Norfolk, on an affluent of the river Yare, 2½ miles W of Loddon, and 5¼N of Bungay station on the G.E.R. Post town, Brooke, under Norwich; money order and telegraph office, Loddon. Acreage, 1562; population of the civil parish, 282; of the ecclesiastical, with Seething, 640. The manor and much of the land belong to Viscount Canterbury. The living is a vicarage, united with that of Seething, in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £200 with residence. Patrons, the trustees of Norwich Hospital. The church is an ancient building of flint and stone in the Norman style, and consists of chancel, nave, N aisle, S porch, and a lofty embattled western tower, and is dedicated to St Peter. Ruins exist of another church which was dedicated to St Ethelbert.
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 | Mundham St. Ethelred and St. Peter | |
Hundred | Loddon | |
Poor Law union | Loddon and Clavering |
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 Mundham:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1561-1909 | 1561-1909 | 1559-1901 | 1560-1812 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Mundham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Mundham, St. Ethelred and St. Peter)
Maps
Online maps of Mundham 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.