Place:Toft Trees, Norfolk, England

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Toftrees or Toft Trees is a hamlet and former civil parish which has been part of the parish of Dunton in the English county of Norfolk since 1935.

The hamlet is 2.3 miles southwest of Fakenham and 27.3 miles northwest of Norwich. The nearest railway station is at Sheringham for the Bittern Line which runs between Sheringham, Cromer and Norwich. The village is situated on the northwest side of the A1065 Fakenham to Swaffham road. The parish had in 2001 UK census, a population of 115. It was counted with Dunton in 2011. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the District of North Norfolk.

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

"TOFT-TREES, a parish in Walsingham [registration] district, Norfolk; 2¼ miles SW of Fakenham [railway] station. Post town, Fakenham. Acres: 1,184. Real property: £1,749. Population: 64. Houses: 12. Most of the property belongs to Marquis Townshend. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £220. Patron: Marquis Townshend. The church is old but good."

Research Tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Toft Trees. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
• GENUKI also supplies a map illustrating the individual parishes of Freebridge Lynn Hundred. Parishes labelled with letters should be identifiable from the Ordnance Survey Map of 1900.
• 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.