Weybourne, Norfolk
Historical Description
Weybourne, a parish, with a village, in Norfolk, on the coast, 3 miles from Sherringham station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway, and 12½ ENE of Walsingham. It has a post office under Holt; money order and telegraph office. Lower Sherringham. It has a coastguard station, and carries on malting, brewing, fishing, and fish-curing. Acreage, 1719; population, 287. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor belongs to the Earl of Orford. An Augustinian Friary was founded here in the time of King John, and has left some remains. The living is a donative in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £40. Patron, the Earl of Orford. The church is a building of flint in the Early English style, and was restored in 1888.
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 Weybourne:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1710-1886 | 1710-1886 | 1729-1902 | 1727-1886 |
Maps
Online maps of Weybourne 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.