Swafield, Norfolk
Historical Description
Swafield, a pleasant village and a parish in Norfolk, 2 miles N from North Walsham, where there are stations on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway and the G.E. It. Post town and money order and telegraph office, North Walsham. Acreage, 832; population, 183. There is a parish council consisting of five members. There are two manors, one of which belongs to Lord Suffield, and the other to St Peter's College, Cambridge. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £135 with residence. Patron, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The church, dedicated to St Nicholas, is an ancient edifice of flint in the Perpendicular style.
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 | Swafield St. Nicholas | |
Hundred | Tunstead |
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 Swafield:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1660-1903 | 1660-1903 | 1660-1836 | 1660-1904 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Swafield from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Swafield (St. Nicholas))
Maps
Online maps of Swafield 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.