Research your home in Norwich

Maps and plans can also be found in the records of private collectors and antiquaries. Good examples include the antiquarian material collected by Prince Frederick Duleep Singh, prince of Lahore, who lived at Elveden in Suffolk and had a passion for the history of the region. DS 183-260 of this collection comprises plans and sale particulars for small estates or developments in Norwich.

Great Hospital estates NCR 4

HNR 721 Norwich Hospital's plan book 17th century-18th century: Plans of estates belonging to the Boy's and Girl's hospitals, St Helen's, Doughtys, City of Norwich, and the Great Hospital.

NCR 16e/1-109 Norwich Corporation Maps and Plans, nd [1767]-1845:

Many of them are plans of proposed public undertakings, such as railways, new waterways and major buildings deposited with the Norwich clerk of the peace (a post held, almost without exception until 1835, by the town clerk of the day). Some are simply plans of estates owned by the corporation or by city charities, but many others appear to relate to proposed speculative developments of Corporation-owned sites in and around Norwich (particularly on the city walls or in the ditch waste outside the walls).