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"STOKE-FERRY is a large village, pleasantly situated near the navigable river Wissey, 7 miles E.S.E. of Downham, 14½ miles S.S.E. of Lynn, 10 miles S.W. by W. of Swaffham, and 88 miles N. by E. of London; at the junction of roads from Thetford, Brandon, &c. It has a large fair for horses, cattle, &c., on Dec. 6th; and a Hiring for Servants on the Thursday before old Michaelmas; . . . Its corn market, formerly held on Friday, is obsolete. Its parish, which abounds in lime-stone, contains 663 inhabitants, and about 1,900 acres of land, partly a cultivated fen, and mostly belonging to J.B.S. Bradfield, Esq., the lord of the manor, who has a neat mansion here. . . . In the 32nd of Henry III., the abbot of Ely had a grant for a market and fair here. … The CHURCH, (All Saints,) is a small neat fabric, . . . The perpetual curacy, certified at £18, and valued in 1831 at £110, was augmented 1779 and 1801, with £400 of Queen Anne's bounty. The patronage, and the impropriate tithes, belong to the Crown, and the Rev. Henry Sims, B.A., is the incumbent. G.R. Eyres, Esq., is lessee of the great tithes. The Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists have each a chapel here. . . . The Free School was founded, pursuant to the will of James Bradfield Sanders, Esq., who, in 1807, left £250 for the erection of the school-house, and charged his estate here with the yearly payment of £25 to the master, for the education of 25 poor children of Stoke-Ferry and Wretton." [William White History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk (1845) - Transcription copyright © Pat Newby]
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- 1891: Surname List (this is a link to an archived copy)
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Censuses
- In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Fincham, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
It could have been in a different deanery both before and after this date. - The parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
- Methodist Church
- Minister, services, picture, etc.
Follow the link to the home page, then search for the church.
For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1930 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), Stoke Ferry was in Downham Registration District.
- Wissey Valley Web Pages
- Including Wereham, Wretton, West Dereham, Boughton, Stoke Ferry and Whittington in the Wissey Valley in West Norfolk.
- 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: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
- 1883: Kelly's Directory for Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk (this is a link to an archived copy)
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Directories
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Stoke Ferry to another place.
Stoke Ferry is in Clackclose Hundred.
- Parish outline and location.
- See Parish Map for Clackclose Hundred
- Description of Clackclose Hundred
- 1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
- Coates, Doris E.
- Stoke Ferry: the Story of a Norfolk Village.
[ISBN 0950687103, Harpsden Press, 1980]
List of Names, List of Photographs and Bibliography.
Inclosure
- Great Britain. Inclosure Commissioners
- Statement of Claims: Stoke, otherwise Stoke Ferry (43), Wretton (50), Wereham and hamlet of Winnold (55).
Drawn up in pursuance of the Act of Inclosure, 1815.
[1816] - Great Britain: Statute
- Stoke Ferry and other parishes Inclosure Act, 1815.
An act for inclosing lands in the parishes of Stoke otherwise Stoke Ferry, Wretton, Wereham, and hamlet of Winnold, in the county of Norfolk: 14th June 1815.
[London, George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1815]
[London, G. White, 1815]
Drainage
- Great Britain: Statute
- Stoke Ferry and other parishes drainage act, 1771.
An act for draining and preserving certain fen lands and low grounds in the parishes of Stoke Ferry, Northwold, Wretten, Wereham, West Dereham and Roxham, in the county of Norfolk.
[1771] - Great Britain: Statute
- Fenland Drainage Act, 1814.
An act for more effectually draining and preserving certain fen lands, and low grounds, in the parishes of Stoke Ferry, Northwold, Wretton, Wereham, West Dereham, Roxham, Fordham, Denver, Downham Market, Wimbotsham, and Stow Bardolph, in the county of Norfolk: 28th June 1814.
[London, George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1814]
[London, J. Dorington, 1814] - Great Britain: Statute
- Stoke Ferry and other parishes drainage act, 1834.
An act for more effectually draining and preserving certain fen lands and low grounds in the parishes of Stoke Ferry, Northwold, Wretton, Wereham, West Dereham, Roxham, Fordham, Denver, Downham Market, Wimbotsham, and Stow Bardolph, in the county of Norfolk: 16th June 1834.
[London, George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, 1834]
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF702000 (Lat/Lon: 52.571134, 0.510692), Stoke Ferry 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.
- Helsham, Crowe, etc.
- See Norfolk People and Families
- After 1834 Stoke Ferry became part of the Downham Union, and the workhouse was at Downham Market.
These figures are from the population tables which were produced after the 10-yearly national censuses. The "Families" heading includes families and single occupiers.
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There may be more people living in detached parts of the parish (if there were any) and, if so, the number may or may not be included in the figures above. It is quite difficult to be sure from the population tables.