Place:Thorpe next Haddiscoe, Norfolk, England

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Thorpe next Haddiscoe from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales:

"THORPE-NEXT-HADDISCOE, a parish in Loddon [registration] district, Norfolk; 1¼ mile W of St. Olaves Junction [railway] station, and 5 E of Loddon. Post town: Loddon, under Norwich. Acres: 824. Real property: £1,517. Population: 84. Houses: 19. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £175. Patron: alternately the Lord Chancellor and Lord Calthorpe. The church's chancel was rebuilt in 1838. Charities, £5."

Thorpe next Haddiscoe was absorbed into the neighbouring parish of Haddiscoe in 1935.

Research tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Thorpe next Haddiscoe. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
• A map illustrating the individual parishes of Clavering Hundred may be useful. 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.