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"SOUTH CREAKE is a parish and village of dispersed houses, pleasantly situated on the Fakenham road, 4 miles south of Burnham Market, containing 1,041 inhabitants, 223 houses, and 4,029a. 1r. 1p. of land, exclusive of four distinct sheep walks of about 700 acres. Capt. J. Townshend, R. N., M.P. for Tamworth, (who succeeded the late Lord Charles Vere Ferrars Townshend,) owns a great part of the soil, and is lord of the manor, impropriator of the great tithes, and patron of the vicarage. The Earl of Leicester owns the Leicester Square farm, 700 acres, and there are several smaller proprietors. The Church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, has a lofty nave, side aisles, chancel, and a low tower with five bells. The living is a discharged vicarage, which was certified at £35, but has now a yearly rent of £440, awarded in lieu of tithes. The Rev. Hy. Goggs, M.A., is the incumbent. About half a mile south-west of the church is a remarkable Saxon fortification, the road to which is still called Blood-gate, from the tradition that a great slaughter was here made in a battle between the Saxons and Danes. The Independents have a chapel here." [Francis White, History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk (1854) - Transcription copyright © the late A.J. Carter]
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South Creake is about 5 miles N.W. of Fakenham.
See also North Creake.
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- 1891: Surname List (this is a link to an archived copy)
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Censuses
| Chapel, South Creake, Independent |
- 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.
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Description and pictures.
- South Creake Marriages 1550-1837
- See Phillimore's Marriage Registers, Volume 8.
- South Creake Marriages
- These are included in Boyd's Marriage Index.
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), South Creake was in Docking Registration District.
- 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 South Creake to another place.
South 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
- South Creake Fort
- Pictures of the remains.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF856362 (Lat/Lon: 52.890937, 0.756684), South 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 South Creake
- World Wars 1 and 2.
- After 1834 South Creake became part of the Docking Union, and the workhouse was at Docking.