Wendling, Norfolk
Historical Description
Wendling, a parish, with a village, in Norfolk, with a station on the G.E.R., 121 miles from London, and 4 W of East Dereham. It has a post office under Dereham; money order office, Little Frencham; telegraph office, Dereham. Acreage, 1472; population of the civil parish, 393; of the ecclesiastical, with Longham, 696. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. A Premonstratensian abbey was founded here before 1267 by W. de Wendling, and was given at the dissolution to R. Hogan. The living is a rectory, annexed to Longham. The church is a small building in the Early English style. There is a Methodist chapel.
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 | Wendling St. Peter and St. Paul | |
Hundred | Launditch | |
Poor Law union | Mitford and Launditch |
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 Wendling:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1539-1887 | 1539-1887 | 1550-1837 | 1539-1812 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Wendling from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wendling (St. Peter and St. Paul))
Maps
Online maps of Wendling 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.