Skeyton, Norfolk
Historical Description
Skeyton, a parish, with a village, in Norfolk, 3½ miles E from Buxton Lammas station on the East Norfolk section of the G.E.R., and 11 N from Norwich. Acreage, 1303; population, 277. Post town, Norwich, under Swanton Abbott; money order and telegraph office, Buxton Lammas. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £163 with residence. The church, which stands on an eminence, is an edifice of flint in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and a low western tower. There are Wesleyan and Wesleyan Reform chapels.
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 | Skeyton All Saints | |
Hundred | South Erpingham | |
Poor Law union | Aylsham |
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 Skeyton:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1706-1902 | 1706-1902 | 1706-1901 | 1707-1905 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Skeyton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Skeyton (All Saints))
Maps
Online maps of Skeyton 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.