Brinton, Norfolk Genealogy

England Norfolk  Norfolk Parishes

Parish History
BRINTON (St. Andrew), a parish, in the hundred of Holt, W. division of Norfolk, 2½ miles (W. S. W.) from Holt. Brinton St Andrew is an Ancient parish in the Holt deanery of the diocese of Norwich.

In 1759 the Brinton and Thornage parishes were consolidated.

In the early 1800s a milestone was erected stating the mileage to Holt and Dereham. This has since been restored and can be seen today on on the B1110 Holt to Dereham road where it is milestone 14 of 15.

In 1838 the Wesleyan Chapel was built.

In 1845 Lord Hastings was lord of the manor, but John Brereton, Esq. had large land holdings in Brinton.

By 1883 the Melton Constable Railway Station was within 1 mile of Brinton. Presently (2013) their is no public bus service to Brinton. The nearest bus stop being a pleasant walk to Sharrington.

The village of Brinton and some of its houses were once used as a backdrop for the BBC television series Dangerfield.

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.


 * Erpingham 1837- 1869
 * Walsingham 1869- 1938
 * Fakenham 1939-1974

Church records
parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Norfolk Record Office reference PD 504

Poor Law Unions
Created in 1782, the Brinton Gilbert Union (also called Brinton Incorportation) survived until 1869 when it went was incorporated into Walsingham

Norfolk Poor Law Unions

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Norfolk Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain

Web sites

 * Brinton on GenUKI