Rushall, Norfolk
Historical Description
Rushall, a parish, with a small village, in Norfolk, 6 miles NE from Diss, and 2 S from Pulham St Mary station on the Waveney Valley section of the G.E.R. Post town, Scole; money order office, Dickleburgh; telegraph office, Pulham St Mary. Acreage, 1178; population, 199. The manor belongs to the Duke of Norfolk. Rushall Hall is now a farmhouse. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £80 with residence. The church is an ancient building of flint in the Early English and Decorated styles; it was restored in 1878.
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 | Rushall St. Mary | |
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 Rushall:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1561-1903 | 1561-1903 | 1562-1901 | 1562-1903 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Rushall from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Rushall (St. Mary))
Maps
Online maps of Rushall 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.