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- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
Attleborough is a market town and civil parish between Norwich and Thetford in Norfolk, England. The parish is in the district of Breckland and has an area of 21.9 square kilometres (8.5 sq mi). The 2001 UK census recorded the town as having a population of 9,702 distributed among 4,185 households, increasing to a population of 10,482 in 4,481 households in the 2011 UK census
Attleborough railway station provides a main line rail service to both Norwich and Cambridge.
History
For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Attleborough.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Attleborough from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1871-72:
- "ATTLEBOROUGH, or Attleburgh, a small town, a parish, and a [registration] subdistrict, in the [registration] district of Weyland, Norfolk. The town stands adjacent to the Norfolk and Eastern Union railway, 16 miles SW of Norwich. It was the capital of East Anglia, and had strength enough to check the incursions of the Danes; and it retained fortifications of some note till the time of Henry II. It is now decayed and small; yet serves still as a county centre. It has a station with telegraph on the railway, a head post office, a banking office, and a chief inn. A corn-market hall was built in 1863, at a cost of £1,000. A weekly market is held on Thursday; and there are three annual fairs. A college, for a custos and four fellows, was founded, in the time of Richard II., by Sir Robert de Mortimer; and given, in the time of Henry VIII., to Robert, Earl of Sussex. The church of the college still stands; is a spacious cruciform edifice in Norman and early English, with square tower rising from the centre; and contains monuments to distinguished members of the families of Mortimer, Ratcliffe, and Blickley.
- "The parish comprises 5,260 acres. Real property: £12,682. Population: 2,221. Houses: 494. The property is much subdivided. [Attleborough] Hall, Hill House, and the Point are chief residences. The first turnpike road in England was made in this parish. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £1,226. Patron: Sir W. B. Smith. There are three dissenting chapels. Charities, £76 and 57 acres of poors' allotment."
Research Tips
- GENUKI provides a list of references for Attleborough. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
- GENUKI also supplies a map illustrating the individual parishes of Shropham 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.
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