Place:


Conisford  Norfolk

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Conisford like this:

CONISFORD, a sub-district in the district and city of Norwich. It contains the parishes of St. George-Tombland, St. Peter-per-Mountergate, St. John-Timber-hill, All Saints, St. Michael-at-Thorne, St. Julian, St. Etheldred, St. John-Sepulchre, and St. Peter-Southgate, part of the parish of Trowse, and the extra-parochial place of Norfolk county jail. Pop., 12, 983. Houses, 2, 922.

No precise location has been found, but multiple sources agree that Conisford was broadly equivalent to the modern King Street area of Norwich; for example, John Chambers, A general history of the county of Norfolk (John Stacy, London, 1829) says "Conisford Great Ward contains North Conisford, South Conisford, and Ber-street small wards. King-street, formerly Conisford-street, begins at the upper end of the Great ward, and continues quite through it to the opposite end, being much the longest steet in Norwich." (p. 1016). Additional information about this locality is available for Norwich

Conisford through time

Conisford is now part of Norwich district. Click here for graphs and data of how Norwich has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Conisford itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Conisford, in Norwich and Norfolk | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24965

Date accessed: 29th March 2024


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