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"EGMERE parish, 3 miles W. of Walsingham, has only 54 inhabitants, and about 1,200 acres of land, nearly all occupied by Thos. Denny, and belonging to the Earl of Leicester, the lord of the manor, and patron of the rectory, valued in the King's Book at £8, and in 1831 at £180, with the vicarage of Holkham annexed to it, in the incumbency of the Rev. John Ackroyd, M.A. Egmere CHURCH (St. Edmund,) has been long in ruins, and was first desecrated by Sir Nicholas Bacon, who turned it into a barn. Only part of the tower now remains." [William White, History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk (1845) - Transcription copyright © Pat Newby]
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Egmere is about 5 miles north north west of Fakenham.
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- 1891: Surname List (this is a link to an archived copy)
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Censuses
| St Edmund, Egmere, Church of England |
- In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Walsingham, in the archdeaconry of Norwich.
It could have been in a different deanery or archdeaconry both before and after this date. - The parish church is dedicated to St Edmund.
- Church of St Edmund
- Sketch of the ruined tower.
For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1930 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), Egmere was in Walsingham Registration District.
- 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 Egmere to another place.
Egmere is in North Greenhoe Hundred.
- Parish outline and location.
- See Parish Map for North Greenhoe Hundred
- Description of North Greenhoe Hundred
- 1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF901380 (Lat/Lon: 52.905641, 0.825176), Egmere which are provided by:
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- 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.
- After 1834 Egmere became part of the Walsingham Union, and the workhouse was at Great Snoring.