Wheatacre All Saints, Norfolk
Historical Description
Wheatacre All Saints, a parish in Norfolk, 1 mile ENE of Aldeby station on the G.E.R., and 4 miles NE of Beccles. Post town, Beccles. Acreage, 1144; population, 164. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £210 with residence. Patron, Cains College, Cambridge. The church is an ancient structure of flint in the Perpendicular style, and was restored in 1885.
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 | Wheatacre All Saints | |
Hundred | Clavering | |
Poor Law union | Loddon and Clavering |
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.
Civil Registration
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Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Wheatacre All Saints from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wheatacre (All Saints))
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.