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"MATTISHALL is a large and well built village, and parish, 5 miles E. by S. of East Dereham, and 11 miles W. of Norwich, comprising 1,155 inhabitants and 2,238 acres of land, of which about 900 were inclosed in 1801. It is in several MANORS: Sir W.R. Clayton is lord of Whinburgh; Lord Wodehouse, of Thuxton-Hall and Barnham-Broom; Edward Lombe, Esq. of Thuxton-Waces; Lord Bayning, of East Tuddenham-Cockfields; T.T. Berney, Esq., of Hockering, and Mattishall-Tuddenham; T.B. Evans, Esq., of North Tuddenham-St. Clere and Bellhouse-hall; and G. Cooper, Esq., of Moutneys. The CHURCH (All Saints,) stands on an eminence in the centre of the village, and is a large Gothic pile, with six bells and a lofty tower. .The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the King's Book at £7.7s.3½d., and in 1831, at £469, in the patronage of Gonville and Caius. . . . Before the introduction of machinery, Mattishall was largely engaged in the worsted manufacture." [William White, History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk (1845) - Transcription copyright © Paddy Apling]
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See also Mattishall Burgh.
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| Chapel, Mattishall, Independents or Congregationalists |
| Cemetery, Mattishall, Cemetery |
| Meeting House, Mattishall, Society of Friends |
- 1891: Surname List (this is a link to an archived copy)
| Chapel, Mattishall, Independents or Congregationalists |
| Welgate United Reformed Church, Mattishall, United Reformed Church |
| Cemetery, Mattishall, Cemetery |
| Chapel (Church Plain), Mattishall, Primitive Methodist |
| Chapel (now Methodist Church), Mattishall, Primitive Methodist |
| Meeting House, Mattishall, Society of Friends |
- Mattishall Churches
- All Saints, St Peter, Methodist, Evangelical, United Reformed, and the Old Moor Chapel.
Description, pictures, etc. - Methodist Church
- Minister, services, picture, etc.
Follow the link to the home page, then search for the church. - Jolly, Cyril
- The story of Methodism in Mattishall.
[Mattishall?, 1951]
- Bishop's Transcripts
- Baptisms, Marriages and Burials.
- Mid-Norfolk FHS
- A History of Mattishall United Reformed Church, including a history of the Independent and Congregational Churches there (with baptisms 1772-1998, marriages 1882-1997, deaths 1780-1998, memorial inscriptions from Badley Moor, which is the redundant burial ground adjacent to the Old Moor Meeting House and Welgate Chapel, and a list of ministers from 1650).
[Mid-Norfolk FHS, 1999?] - Seaman, Peter J. and Palgrave-Moore, Patrick
- Norfolk nonconformist registers. No.1: Mattishall and Dereham Congregational 1772-1837, Mattishall and Watton Primitive Methodist 1832-1837; transcribed and indexed.
[Norwich, Norfolk and Norwich Genealogical Society, 1983]
- Mattishall and Mattishall Burgh Village Pages
- Description, history, churches, pictures, wartime, news, local businesses, etc.
- 1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
- 1854: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk (this is a link to an archived copy)
- 1883: Kelly's Directory for Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk (this is a link to an archived copy)
- 1900: Kelly's Directory of Norfolk
With additional history and description.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Mattishall to another place.
- Barringer, J.C. (ed)
- Towards a history of Mattishall: from research by the Village History Group of Mattishall Society.
[Mattishall, the Society, 1977]
- Great Britain. Inclosure Commissioners
- Statement of Claims: Mattishall.
Drawn up in pursuance of the Act of Inclosure, 1801.
[1801] - Great Britain: Statute
- Mattishall Inclosure Act, 1801.
An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing the open fields, commons, and waste lands, within the parish of Mattishall, in the county of Norfolk.
[1801]
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TG049113 (Lat/Lon: 52.660247, 1.028424), Mattishall which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.