Marshland St James is a village and
civil parish
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in the
English county of
Norfolk
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.
It covers an area of and had a population of 1,137 in 456 households at the
2001 census, increasing to 1,209 at the 2011 Census.
For the purposes of local government, it falls within the
district
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of
King's Lynn and West Norfolk.
Churches
Marshland St James had multiple churches which are Anglican and Methodist. The parish church is St James in the deanery of Lynn Marshland, in the archdeaconry of Wisbech.
The original Church of England church was St Jame. It was founded in 1837 and closed in 2002. The church did not have a graveyard.
The church does not have a graveyard.
Marshland Fen Methodist Church was founded before 1907. The Primitive Methodist church was an early 19th century (1807) secession from the Wesleyan Methodist church and was particularly successful in evangelising agricultural and industrial communities at open meetings. In 1932 the Primitive Methodists joined with the Wesleyan Methodists and the United Methodists to form the Methodist Church of Great Britain.
Historical geography
Marshland St James is about 11 miles S.W. of King's Lynn.
It was created as an ecclesiastical parish in 1922, and as a civil parish in 1935, from parts of Clenchwarton, Emneth, Terrington St Clement, Terrington St John, Tilney All Saints, Tilney St Lawrence, Tilney cum Islington, Walpole St Andrew, Walpole St Peter, and West Walton.
rom Kelly's Directory of Norfolk 1937
Marshland St James is in Freebridge Marshland hundred.
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