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"Eccles-by-the-Sea, 9 miles E. by S. of North Walsham, is a decayed parish, once a noted fishing town, with a lordship of 2000 acres, but so wasted by the incursions of the ocean, that the inhabitants, in their petition for a reduction of taxes, in 1605, complained that they had then only 14 houses, and 300 acres of land, "the rest being all destroyed by the sea, together with the church." It has now only 53 inhabitants, and 253 acres of land divided into three farms, occupied by Cornelius Croxton, George Empson and Robert Thompson. Edward Lombe, Esq., is lord of the manor, and patron of the vicarage, valued in the King's Book at £8, and now enjoyed by the Rev. Edw. Evans; but owing to the want of a church, this is a sinecure benefice, and the inhabitants use the church at Hempstead, with which parish they have long been united for the support of the poor. Eccles Church (St. Mary,) was destroyed nearly 250 years ago, as noticed above, except the tower, which is still standing, but is embedded to the height of the former walls of the church, in the accumulated sand-hills which have been thrown up by the sea, and serve as a barrier against the too rapid encroachments of the tides. The lower part of this tower is circular, and the upper octangular.
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Eccles by the Sea is about 14 miles E. of Aylsham.
It is consolidated with Hempstead near Stalham in some records.
See also Eccles in south west Norfolk.
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- 1871
- 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 Waxham, 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 St Mary, but it was destroyed in the 16th century.
For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1869 (and for the censuses in 1851 and 1861), Eccles was in Tunstead and Happing Registration District.
This district was renamed on 1st January 1870 and, from then until 1930, Eccles was in Smallburgh Registration District for civil registration and for the censuses of 1871 to 1901.
- No author
- Eccles next the Sea, Norfolk, and the erosion of the East Coast.
[1900s]
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Eccles by the Sea to another place.
Eccles by the Sea is in Happing Hundred.
- Parish outline and location.
- See Parish Map for Happing Hundred
- Description of Happing Hundred
- 1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
- Palmer, Frederick Danby
- Eccles by the sea.
[Norwich, Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, in "Norfolk Archaeology", vol.12, 1895] - Pestell, Ronald and Stannard, David
- Eccles-Juxta-Mare, a lost village discovered.
[ISBN 0952641402, Steeple Publishing, 1995]
- Great Britain. Inclosure Commissioners
- Statement of Claims: Repps with Bastwick (39) and Eccles next the Sea.
[1807] - Great Britain: Statute
- Repps and Eccles Inclosure and Drainage Act, 1807.
An act for inclosing and draining lands within the parishes of Repps with Bastwick and Eccles next the Sea, in the county of Norfolk, 27th April 1807.
[London, George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1807] - Land allotment and drainage
- See Hempstead.
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- In 1785 Eccles became part of the Tunstead and Happing Incorporation, and the workhouse was at Smallburgh.
- In 1869 the incorporation became the Smallburgh Union.