Cockley Cley, Norfolk Genealogy

History
Cockley Cley All Saints is an ancient parish. All Saints was once a round towered church, but on 29th August 1991 the tower collapsed. The church was extensively remodelled in the 1860's by the architect Phipson.

It includes the ruined Norman chapel of St Mary and an earlier church dedicated to St Philip had also occupied the site.

Church Records
Images of the parish register for this parish are available in Historical records(formerly Record Search).

Norfolk Record Office reference PD 137/1-5

Two parishes have been "swapped" in Record Search image collection the banns books and banns/marriage registers for Cockley Cley and Oxburgh are viewable but not in the correct parish. If examined closely they are identified as Oxburgh and "Cley" on record covers.

The images await engineering to correct this situation.

Poor Law Unions

 * http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Swaffham/Swaffham.shtml
 * Swaffham Poor Law Union
 * Norfolk Poor Law Unions

Registration Districts

 * Swaffham