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"NORTH CREAKE, 3 miles S. by E. of Burnham Market, is a parish and considerable village on the Fakenham road, comprising 157 houses, 776 inhabitants, and 3,528 acres of land, of which Earl Spencer, and the Fellows of Christ College, Cambridge, are the principal owners and lords of the manor; the latter being proprietors of the Abbey estate, 620a., now leased to the Earl of Orford. At the northern extremity of the parish are the remains of Creake Abbey, founded about the year 1206, by Sir Robert de Narford and his wife Alice, for a master, four chaplains, and thirteen lay brethren; but they were subsequently made an abbot, and canons of the Augustine order, and had a Church, dedicated to St. Bartholomew. After the dissolution, the abbey, with all the lands belonging to it, were granted by Margaret, Countess of Richmond, to Christ College. A great part of the abbey walls still remain, and form a picturesque ruin. . . The Church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, a spacious and handsome gothic structure, with a tower and six bells, has a finely ornamented roof. . . The patronage is vested alternately in the Bishop of Norwich and Earl Spencer. The Hon. and Rev. Thos. Robt. Keppel, M.A., the incumbent, has built a handsome and commodious rectory house, in the Tudor style." [Francis White, History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk (1854) - Transcription copyright © the late A.J. Carter]
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North Creake is about 7 miles N.W. of Fakenham.
See also South Creake.
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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 Burnham, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
It could have been in a different deanery or archdeaconry both before and after this date. - The parish church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Description and pictures.
- Bedingfeld, A.L. and Gilyard-Beer, R.
- Creake Abbey, Norfolk: History.
[London, H.M.S.O, 1970] - North Creake Abbey
- Description and pictures.
- North Creake Abbey (this is a link to an archived copy)
- Description and picture.
- North Creake Marriages
- These are not included in Boyd's Marriage Index or Phillimore's Marriage Registers.
- Bedingfeld, Arthur Lumsden
- A Cartulary of Creake Abbey.
[Norwich, Norfolk Record Society (vol 35), 1966]
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Church Records
For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1930 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), North Creake was in Docking Registration District.
- North Creake Mill
- Description, history and pictures.
- 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)
- 1940: Arthur Mee's The King's England: Norfolk
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Directories
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from North Creake to another place.
North Creake is in Brothercross Hundred.
- Parish outline and location.
- See Parish Map for Brothercross Hundred
- Description of Brothercross Hundred
- 1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
- Pooley, Graham
- Eleven hundred years: North Creake.
[ISBN 0951416804, Norfolk, The Creakes History Society, c1988]
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF854383 (Lat/Lon: 52.910093, 0.75548), North Creake 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.
- Roll of Honour for North Creake
- World Wars 1 and 2.
- After 1834 North Creake became part of the Docking Union, and the workhouse was at Docking.