Needham, Norfolk
Historical Description
Needham, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village stands on the river Waveney, at the boundary with Suffolk, U mile SW of Harleston station on the Waveney Valley section of the G.E.R., and is small and scattered. It has a post office under Harleston; money order and telegraph office, Harleston. The parish comprises 1157 acres; population, 335. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. The church is an ancient building of brick, stone, and flint in the Norman style, and consists of nave and chancel, with porch and round tower.
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 | Needham St. Peter | |
Hundred | Earsham | |
Poor Law union | Depwade |
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 Needham:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1643-1900 | 1643-1900 | 1644-1902 | 1644-1903 |
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 Needham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Needham (St. Peter))
Maps
Online maps of Needham 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.