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East Wretham

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"WRETHAM, (EAST and WEST,) about 6 miles N.N.E. of Thetford, are two adjoining parishes. East Wretham has 194 souls, 2572 acres, a small village of its own name, and another called Stone Bridge, in a rivulet, nearly a mile E. of the church. West Wretham has 103 souls, 3121 acres, a few scattered houses, and Wretham Hall, . . . This mansion is the seat of Wyrley Birch, Esq., owner of both parishes, lord of the manor, and patron of the consolidated rectories, valued in 1831, at £550, and in the King's Books, one at £11. 12s. 3½d., and the other at £12. 11s. 3d. The Rev. F.L. Birch, M.A., is the incumbent. East Wretham Church (St. Ethelbert,) is a small neat edifice; but that at West Wretham (St. Lawrence,) has been long in ruins." [William White, History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk (1845) - Transcription copyright © Pat Newby]

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See also West Wretham.

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Census

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Church Directories

  • In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Rockland, 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 Ethelbert.
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Church History

Church of St Ethelbert
Description and history.
Church of St Ethelbert
Picture of the church.
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Church Records

Marriages
These are not included in Boyd's Marriage Index or Phillimore's Marriage Registers.

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Civil Registration

For the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1930 (and for the censuses from 1851 to 1901), East Wretham was in Thetford Registration District.

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Description & Travel

East and West Wretham
News, events, parish council, pictures, etc.
Raker, Melinda
Wretham: 900 years of a Norfolk estate.
[Boughtons Printers, 1995]
East Wretham Tower Mill
Description, history and pictures.
East Wretham Water Mill
Description and picture.

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Gazetteers

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Historical Geography

East Wretham is in Shropham Hundred.

Parish outline and location.
See Parish Map for Shropham Hundred
Description of Shropham Hundred
1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
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Maps

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TL916901 (Lat/Lon: 52.47519, 0.819694), East Wretham which are provided by:

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Military Records

Roll of Honour for East and West Wretham
World Wars 1 and 2.

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Poor Houses, Poor Law

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Schools

East Wretham School
Description and picture.