Upwell Cambridgeshire and Norfolk Family History Guide
Upwell is an Ancient Parish partly in Cambridgeshire and partly in Norfolk. Welney is a chapelry of Upwell.
Alternative names: Christchurch, St Peter, Upwell Christchurch, Upwell St Peter
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1650
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1691
Nonconformists include: Baptist (Norfolk), Primitive Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.
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Adjacent Parishes
- March Cambridgeshire
- Outwell, Norfolk
- Denver Norfolk
- Stow Bardolph Norfolk
- Fordham Norfolk
- Welney Norfolk
- Hilgay Norfolk
- Downham Market Norfolk
- Elm Cambridgeshire
- Manea Cambridgeshire
- Welney Cambridgeshire
- Outwell Cambridgeshire
- Wimblington Cambridgeshire
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
UPWELL, a village and a sub-district in Wisbeach district, and a parish partly also in Downham district, Cambridge and Norfolk.
The village stands on the river Nen, 4¾ miles E of Pear-Tree r. station, and 6 SE by S of Wisbeach; was once a market-town; and has a post-office under Wisbeach.
The parish includes Welney chapelry; and is ecclesiastically cut into the sections of St. Peter, Christchurch, and Welney. Acres, 21,746. Real property, £42,703. Pop. in 1851, 5,377; in 1861, 4,783. Houses, 1,081. The property is much subdivided.
Beaupre Hall manor belongs to W. Townley, Esq.; and Wisbeach-Barton manor, to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. A Gilbertine monastery was founded at Mirmaud about the time of King John.
The livings are rectories in the diocese of Norwich. Value of St. Peter, £3,080; of Christchurch, £1,594; of Welney, £1,300. Patron of St. P. and C., W. Townley, Esq.; of Welney, W. Townlee, Esq. St. Peter’s church is mainly later English; Christchurch was built in 1865; and Welney church was built in 1850.
There are five dissenting chapels, a parochial school, and charities £346.
The sub-district excludes Welney chapelry, but includes Outwell parish. Acres, 19,472. Pop. in 1851, 5,619; in 1861, 4,947. Houses, 1,133.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Upwell Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Cambridgeshire
- Civil Registration District: Wisbeach
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Norfolk
- Diocese: Norwich
- Rural Deanery: Fincham
- Poor Law Union: Wisbech
- Hundred: Wisbech
- Province: Canterbury