Place:Weston Longville, Norfolk, England

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Weston Longville is a civil parish in Norfolk, England, approximately 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Norwich. Its name is derived from the Manor of Longaville in Normandy, France, which owned the local land in the 12th century. It covers an area of 11.24 km2 (4.34 sq mi) and had a population of 303 in 127 households at the 2001 UK census, increasing to a population of 339 in 144 households at the 2011 UK census. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the District of Broadland.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Weston Longville.

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

"WESTON-LONGVILLE, a parish in St. Faith [registration] district, Norfolk; 8 miles E by N of Dereham [railway] station. Post town: Attlebridge, under Norwich. Acres: 2,737. Real property: £4,048. Population: 471. Houses: 98. [Weston Longville] House and much of the land belong to H. F. Custance, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £680. Patron: New College, Oxford. The church is decorated and later English. There is a Wesleyan chapel."

Research Tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Weston Longville. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
• A map illustrating the individual parishes of Eynesford or Eynsford 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.