Norwich from the East
Norwich Census of the Poor, 1570

This data was originally transcribed and published by John F. Pound in 196?, along with a detailed analysis. Over 800 poorer residents of the city are recorded with details of their families, residence and employment.

The data is presented as a single web-page for convenient handling;

(Still to be added (Aug '99) names of the property owners who had been councillors or alderman at around that time.)

Three versions of the file are available:


map of wards in 1570


Web page format has been chosen because it is:

Comments on the usefulness or otherwise of these files would be welcomed:


[last updated: 18th April 2001]

Email: Paul Welbank paul@welbank.net or paul@welbank.net
This page: http://www.welbank.net/norwich/1570/index.html