Norfolk

Ruins of St Mary's Tivetshall submitted by Zoe-Samesizedfeet

Norfolk

County town: Norwich

Other major towns: Great Yarmouth, Kings Lynn

A low-lying county in East Anglia, famous for its Broads, turkeys and big blue skies! Norfolk was also the birthplace of one of our greatest heroes: Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson. He was born in the quiet village of Burnham Thorpe situated close to Burnham Market which has been described as the 'Chelsea on Sea' of Norfolk. The county town of Norfolk is Norwich which has a cathedral and a Castle. Norwich Castle was once a prison and between its gateposts was the site of the scaffold, where many Norfolk felons paid the ultimate price for their crimes. North Norfolk beaches are spectacular.
Gwyneth Paltrow was shown walking across the vast, golden, Holkham beach at the end of the film Shakespeare in Love.

Local Register Office Contact Details

Copies of certificates can be ordered through the following Norfolk register offices:

Cromer

Council Offices
North Lodge Park
Cromer
NR27 0AH

Tel 01263 513078
E-mail registration.cromer@norfolk.gov.uk

Depwade District Register Office

Diss Register Office<br Council Offices
Market Hill
Diss
Norfolk
IP22 3JX

E-mail registration.diss@norfolk.gov.uk

Downham Market Register Office

15 Paradise Road
Downham Market
Norfolk
PE38 9HS

E-mail registration.dmarket@norfolk.gov.uk

East Dereham Register Office

Breckland Business Centre
St Withburga Lane
Dereham
Norfolk
NR19 1FD

E-mail registration.edereham@norfolk.gov.uk

Fakenham District Register Office

Fakenham Connect
Oak St
Fakenham
NR21 9SR

E-mail registration.fakenham@norfolk.gov.uk

Great Yarmouth District Register Office

Ferryside
High Rd
Southtown
Great Yarmouth
NR31 0PH

E-mail registration.gtyarmouth@norfolk.gov.uk

Kings Lynn

St Margaret's House
St Margaret's Place
Kings Lynn
PE30 5DW

E-mail registration.klynn@norfolk.gov.uk

North Walsham District Register Office

18 Kings Arms St
North Walsham
NR28 9JX

E-mail registration.nwalsham@norfolk.gov.uk

Norwich Register Office

Churchman House
71 Bethel St
Norwich
NR2 1NR

E-mail registration.norwich@norfolk.gov.uk

Thetford Register Office

Kings House
King St
Thetford
IP24 2AP

E-mail registration.thetford@norfolk.gov.uk

Record Office Lookup Requests

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Record Office Lookup Contacts

Records Office Address

Norfolk Record Office

The Archive Centre

Martineau Lane

Norwich

NR1 2DQ

Telephone: 01603 222599 Fax: 01603 761885

Cemetery Lookup Requests

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Cemetery Lookup Contacts

• Great Ellingham:Heather Positive Thinker
• Heathersatt:Heather Positive Thinker
• Hingham:Heather Positive Thinker
• Ketteringham:Heather Positive Thinker
• Norwich areas by request:angnorfolkgal
• Sprowston:angnorfolkgal
• Wymondham Abbey:Heather Positive Thinker
• Wymondham Cemetery:Heather Positive Thinker
• Wymondham Methodists:Heather Positive Thinker

Links

• Norwich Record Office

• North Norfolk BMD certificates

• Norfolk genealogy Currently under construction

Local History Society

• Norfolk Family History Society

• The Foxearth and District Local History Society Contains newspaper extracts from the Bury & Norwich post and the Norfolk Chronicle.

• Wells Local History Group The Group has the Wells Parish records from 1550 to 1950

OPC

Archives

• IGI Norfolk

• Norfolk Transcription Archive useful resource searchable by surname or parish.
  

• Norfolk Census Information

• Norfolk Ancestors can conduct a search of original parish records for your ancestor at the local Norfolk Archives.

• NOAH - Norfolk Online Access to Heritage Searchable databases including maps, photographs, probate 1800-1857, directories and other collections. Results from several Norfolk Archives sources.

• Norfolk Sources a collection of images of archive material supplied by the Norfolk Record Office and the Norfolk Heritage Centre. Includes probate 1800-1857 and trade directories.

• Norfolk Baptism Project Ongoing.

Family and social history

• Norfolk Surnames List

• Norfolk Pubs -lists of licencees and photos. Norfolk Public Houses - Past & Present.
  

• Norfolk Dialect Hear a genuine Norfolk accent.
  

• Norfolk mills History, photographs and people associated with Norfolk mills.

• Full details of all those on the War Memorial window (WW1) at All Saints Church, South Lynn.

• Norfolk History and Local Politics Includes some census and directory entries

Maps & Photographs

• Norfolk maps

• Picture Index-Norfolk

• The largest online Norfolk picture and photo library covering the Norfolk Coast, Norfolk Broads and Norwich.

• Photos of Great Walsingham

• Tithe maps of Norfolk

Countywide interest

• Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service

• Old Norfolk

• Norfolk Churches

• Norfolk Gravestone Resource

• Memorial Inscriptions

• Norfolk Mills

• A Miscellany of Genealogical Information and links relating to Norfolk

• Browse copies of the magazine Norfolk Roots - take a look at the forum

• Norfolk Village Signs

Specific Town Village interest

• Walsingham Memories

• Cromer History and Genealogy

• Villages within the Parishes of Fleggborough, Ormesby St. Margaret, Somerton and Maultby

• Hockwold-cum-Wilton

• Wisbech and the Fenlands

• Gorleston Heritage Museum

• Horningtoft Heritage Society

• North Runcton History Pages Includes old Maps and Baptisms 1563-1812

• East & West Rudham

• Swanton Novers Genealogy

• Thornham

• Jim Jotting's West Newton Pages

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