Pudding Norton, Norfolk

Historical Description

Pudding Norton, a small parish in Norfolk, about 1½ mile S from Fakenham station on the Dereham and Wells section of the G.E.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Fakenham. Acreage, 844; population, 30. The manor, with all the land, belongs to the Morse-Boycott family. The living is a sinecure rectory in the diocese of Norwich;. gross value, £10. The church is in ruins.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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 Pudding Norton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Norton, Pudding (St. Margaret))

Maps

Online maps of Pudding Norton 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.