Thursford, Norfolk
Historical Description
Thursford, a parish, with a village, in Norfolk, with a station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway, 4 miles ESE of Walsingham. It has a post office under East Dereham; money order and telegraph office, Walsingham. Acreage, 1353; population of the civil parish, 241; of the ecclesiastical, with Great Snoring, 784. The manor, with Thursford Hall, belongs to the Scott-Chad family. The living is a rectory, annexed to Great Snoring. The church is a small and ancient building of stone in the Early English style, and has been restored.
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 | Thursford St. Andrew | |
Hundred | North Greenhoe | |
Poor Law union | Walsingham |
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 Thursford:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1692-1900 | 1692-1900 | 1692-1929 | 1598-1920 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Thursford from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Thursford (St. Andrew))
Maps
Online maps of Thursford 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.