Stanhoe history elsewhere on the web
Blomefield’s History of Norfolk
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk by Francis Blomefield (1705–1752) remains an important historical source. The link above is to Stanhoe’s entry in Volume 10, which was edited by Charles Parkin after Blomefield’s death from smallpox, and published in 1809. It contains a list of Stanhoe rectors up to 1760.
Missing photos
Below are links to some Stanhoe images of which we don’t yet have copies. The first one is a postcard, and there may well be other postcards we don’t yet know about, so please keep your eyes open at markets and antique fairs:
- Francis Frith postcard of the Pit and the Post Office, c 1955
- Norfolk County Council photo of Church Farm, undated
- Norfolk County Council photo of Stanhoe Station, presumably as a private house, undated
- Norfolk County Council photo of Stanhoe Station, presumably as a private house, undated
- Norfolk County Council photo of a drawing of All Saints‘ church, undated
Stanhoe War Memorial
Detailed information on the servicemen listed on the memorial tablet at the back of the church, and those buried in the churchyard.
Stanhoe mill
Stanhoe once had a windmill near Mill Hill Farm (now Mill House), by the Creake turning on the Burnham road. The link above gives more details from norfolkmills.co.uk.
Rosemary Brown lived at Mill House in the 1950s; her grandparents had bought the house in the 1930s. The Browns believed that the mill had once stood nearby, but even by the 1930s it was no longer visible and they did not know the exact site.
We do not have any photos of Stanhoe mill, and would be very interested to hear from anyone who knows more.
Little Barwick, or Middleton, had a postmill too. According to local historian Gillian Beckett, a mound still visible in the grounds of Barwick House may mark the site of this mill: there’s a photo on our page about Barwick.
Stanhoe railway station
Wikipedia entry on Stanhoe station, which opened in 1866 and closed to passengers in 1952.
GENUKI information for Stanhoe
Stanhoe information and links from the GENUKI Norfolk genealogy database.
All Saints’ church baptisms 1813–1880
Stanhoe baptisms recorded by the Tinstaafl Transcripts project.
Norfolk Heritage Explorer
The above link to the Stanhoe Parish Summary, and Stanhoe’s list of entries in the Norfolk Historic Environment Record (NHER), are outdated in regard to the lack of small archaeological finds from Stanhoe.
NROCAT records at Norfolk Record Office
Records of baptisms, banns, marriages and burials held at the Norfolk Record Office, Norwich, as originals and on microfilm. The search page is here.
Briitish Newspaper Archive cuttings
Entries relating to Stanhoe from the Briitish Newspaper Archive, a collaboration between the British Library and findmypast. Also don’t forget our own newspaper archive and its searchable index page.
Landlords of the Duck Inn, formerly the Crown
A list of landladies and landlords dating back to 1836 from norfolkpubs.co.uk.
Landlords of the Norfolk Hero
A list of landladies and landlords dating back to 1836 from norfolkpubs.co.uk.
Stanhoe’s entry in A Vision of Britain
From the Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System (GBHGIS) project at the University of Portsmouth.
Stanhoe books on Amazon.co.uk
An Amazon book search sometimes pulls up history titles mentioning Stanhoe.
Domesday Reloaded 1986
Stanhoe’s entries in the groundbreaking BBC Domesday Reloaded project to record the UK in 1986. The original 2011 website no longer exists, but the Stanhoe material is available from the National Archives at the link above. Wikipedia and the Domesday Reloaded blog have more information about the project.