Place:Loddon, Norfolk, England

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Loddon is a small market town and civil parish about 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Norwich on the River Chet, a tributary of the River Yare within The Broads in Norfolk, England. The name "Loddon" is thought to mean "muddy river" in Celtic in reference to the Chet.

Lodden covers an area of 11.83 km2 (4.57 sq mi) with a population of 2,648 in the UK census of 2011.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Loddon from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1871-72:

"LODDON, a small town, a parish, a [registration] sub-district, a [registration] district, and a hundred, in Norfolk. The town stands on a small affluent of the river Yare, 3½ miles SSW of Cantley [railway] station, and 10½ SE of Norwich; consists chiefly of one street; is a seat of petty sessions and a polling-place; and has a post office under Norwich, a banking office, two chief inns, a police station, a marketplace, a public reading-room, a church, Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, a public school, and a town estate yielding £260 a year. A building for public purposes was projected in 1869. The church was erected, in the time of Henry VII., by Chief Justice Hobart; is a large and handsome structure, with a fine tower; and contains several ancient monuments. The public school is in the early English style, and has capacity for 180 boys and girls. A weekly market is held on Tuesday; fairs are held on Easter Monday, and the Monday after 22 Nov.; and some malting is carried on.

"The parish comprises 3,020 acres. Real property: £7,212. Population: 1,153. Houses: 266. The manor belonged to the Bigods, and passed to John de Segrave, the Mannys, and the Hobarts. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £300. Patron, the Bishop of Norwich.

[Data on the registration sub-district and district and the hundred are omitted.]

Research Tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Loddon. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
• A map illustrating the individual parishes of Loddon Hundred may be useful.
• GENUKI also advises that the following lists for Norfolk are to be found in FamilySearch:

• England, Norfolk, Parish Registers (County Record Office), 1510-1997
• England, Norfolk Archdeacon's Transcripts, 1600-1812
• England, Norfolk Bishop's Transcripts, 1685-1941
• England, Norfolk Marriage Bonds, 1557-1915
• England, Norfolk Non-conformist Records, 1613-1901

• Ancestry.co.uk has the following lists as of 2018 (UK or worldwide Ancestry membership or library access required). With the exception of the index to wills these files are browsible images of the original documents. The files are separated by type and broken down into time periods (i.e., "Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812" is more than one file). The general explanatory notes are worth reading for those unfamiliar with English parish records.

• Index to wills proved in the Consistory Court of Norwich : and now preserved in the District Probate Registry at Norwich
• Norfolk, England, Bishop's Transcripts, 1579-1935
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1915
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1990
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1940

• FindMyPast is another pay site with large collection of parish records. As of October 2018 they had 20 types of Norfolk records available to browse including Land Tax Records and Electoral Registers.