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| Name | South Creake |
| Alt names | Crech | source: Oxford: English Place Names (1960) p 129 | | Crehic | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 188 | | Creic | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 188; Oxford: English Place Names (1960) p 129 | | Creich | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 188; Oxford: English Place Names (1960) p 129 | | Kreic | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 188 | | Kreich | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 188 | | Suthcreich | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 188; Oxford: English Place Names (1960) p 129 |
| Type | Parish (ancient), Civil parish |
| Coordinates | 52.883°N 0.779°E |
| Located in | Norfolk, England |
| See also | Brothercross Hundred, Norfolk, England | hundred in which it was located | | Docking Rural, Norfolk, England | rural district in which it was located 1894-1935 | | King's Lynn and West Norfolk District, Norfolk, England | district municipality covering the area since 1974 |
- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
South Creake is a village and civil parish in northwest Norfolk, England. The village lies 1 1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) south of its twin village of North Creake, and some 5 miles (8 km) north-west of the town of Fakenham.
South Creake lies on the River Burn, which flows through the centre of the village. The civil parish has an area of 7.79 square miles (20.2 km2) and in the 2001 UK census had a population of 536 in 245 households, reducing to a population of 516 at the 2011 UK census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the District of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of South Creake from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1871-72:
- "CREAKE (South), a parish in Docking [registration] district, Norfolk; 3½ miles SSE of Burnham-Westgate [railway] station, and 5¼ W by S of Walsingham. It has a post office under Fakenham. Acres: 4,146. Real property: £6,185. Population: 1,058. Houses: 213. The property is much sub-divided. There are a Saxon camp and numerous tumuli. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £440. Patron: the Marquis Townshend. The church has a fine font, and is good; and there are an Independent chapel, a national school, and charities £38. Bishop Pearson was a native."
Research Tips
- GENUKI provides a list of references for South Creake. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
- GENUKI also supplies a map illustrating the individual parishes of Brothercross Hundred.
- 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.
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