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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
East Walton is a thinly populated civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of 10.81 km2 (4.17 sq mi) and had a population of 94 in 40 households at the 2001 census. At the 2011 Census the population remained less than 100 and was included in the neighbouring civil parish of West Acre. (This was a nationwide policy adopted for the 2011 census.) For the purposes of local government, it falls within the District of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.
Its church, St. Mary, is one of 124 existing round-tower churches in Norfolk.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of East Walton from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "WALTON (East), a parish in Freebridge-Lynn [registration] district, Norfolk; 1½ mile N of Narborough [railway] station, and 8 ESE of [King's] Lynn. Post town, Lynn. Acres: 2,659. Real property: £1,663. Population: 175. Houses: 36. The manor belongs to A. Hamond, Esq. The living is a vicarage, united with Gayton-Thorpe, in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £424. Patron: A. Hamond, Esq. The church is later English. There are a national school, and charities £24."
West Walton is on the border of Cambridgeshire, quite a ways west of East Walton.
Research Tips
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- 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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