Place:Tilney St. Lawrence, Norfolk, England

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Tilney St Lawrence is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is 52.3 miles (84.2 km) west of Norwich, 9.7 miles (15.6 km) south-southwest of King's Lynn and 104 miles (167 km) north of London. The nearest town is Wisbech in Cambridgeshire which is 8.3 miles (13.4 km) west-southwest of the village. The village lies to the south of the route of the A47 main road between Peterborough and King's Lynn.

The parish of Tilney St Lawrence had a population of 1,465 in the 2001 UK census, increasing to 1,576 at the 2011 UK census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of King's Lynn and West Norfolk.

In 1935 Tilney St Lawrence was reduced in size to create the parish of Marshland St. James, but was enlarged by the abolition of the parish of Tilney with Islington and by gaining part of the parish of Wiggenhall St. Mary the Virgin. (Source:A Vision of Britain through Time) Following this merger Tilney St. Lawrence became the fourth largest civil parish in area in the Marshland region.

The parishes of Tilney All Saints and Tilney St. Lawrence have been linked ecclesiastically since the 19th century.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Tilney St Lawrence.

Research Tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Tilney St. Lawrence. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
• A map illustrating the individual parishes of Freebridge Marshland Hundred may be useful. The small areas defined by letters are a group of detached parts of parishes which were reorganized in 1935. They are specified in this 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.