Sisland or Sizeland, Norfolk

Historical Description

Sisland or Sizeland, a village and a parish in Norfolk, on the river Chet, 1½ mile W from Loddon, and 5 miles S from Buckenham station on the Norwich and Lowestoft section of the G.E.R. Post town, Brooke, under Norwich; money order and telegraph office, Loddon. Acreage, 469; population, 69. There are two manors, one known as the manor of Charles, belonging to Lord Berners, and one known as the manor of Brooke, belonging to Viscount Canterbury. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £143 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone with a thatched roof, consisting of chancel and nave, with a square tower of wood.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

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	Sisland St. Mary
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 Sisland:

Baptisms	Banns	Marriages	Burials
1584-1811	1584-1811	1584-1904	1584-1801

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 Sisland or Sizeland from the following:

Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sisland (St. Mary))

Maps

Online maps of Sisland or Sizeland 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:

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitations of Norfolk 1563, 1589, and 1613 is available on the Heraldry page.