Waxham, Norfolk
Historical Description
Waxham, a parish in Norfolk, on the coast, 11 miles ESE of North Walsham, and 5 from Stalham station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway. Post town, Stalham, under Norwich. Acreage, 1810; population of the civil parish, 111; of the ecclesiastical, with Palling, 508. The living is a rectory, united with Palling, in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £270 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone and flint.
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 | Waxham St. John and St. Margaret | |
Hundred | Happing |
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 Waxham:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1780-1907 | 1780-1907 | 1819-1834 | 1787-1909 |
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 Waxham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Waxham (St. John and St. Margaret))
Maps
Online maps of Waxham 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.