Hide
Caistor St Edmund
hide
Hide
hide
Hide
hide
Hide
Hide
"CAISTOR ST. EDMUND, or Caistor-next-Norwich, is now a small village of detached dwellings, on the east side of the river Tas, Taus, or Tesse, 3 miles S. of Norwich. Its parish contains 147 inhabitants, and 1020A. of land, nearly all the property of Mrs. Harriet Dashwood, who has a neat mansion here, and is lady of the manor and patroness of the Church, a small edifice, with a square tower and three bells. The rectory, valued in the King's Book at £9, and in 1831 at £447, with that of Merkshall annexed to it, is in the incumbency of the Rev. John Arthy. Caistor, though now an inconsiderable village, was at an early period the most flourishing city of the Britons, if not the residence of the Icenian kings. It was an important Roman Station, called Venta Icenorum, afterwards (for the sake of brevity) called Castrum, which the Saxons again altered to Castor. It was deserted after the departure of the Romans, in 446, and its ruined walls are said to have been employed in the erection of Norwich." [William White, History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk (1845) - Transcription copyright © Claire Reeve]
Hide
This is also known as Caistor-next-Norwich, to distinguish it from Caister near Great Yarmouth. The spellings are different, but it is quite common for them to be used interchangeably.
Hide
- 1891: Surname List (this is a link to an archived copy)
- In 1883 the parish was in the Deanery of Brooke, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.
It could have been in a different deanery or archdeaconry both before and after this date. - The parish church is dedicated to St Edmund.
- 1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
- 1883: Kelly's Directory for Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk (this is a link to an archived copy)
See also Norfolk Parish Links: Directories
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Caistor St Edmund to another place.
Caistor St Edmund is in Henstead Hundred.
- Parish outline and location.
- See Parish Map for Henstead Hundred
- Description of Henstead Hundred
- 1845: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk
- The Roman Town of Venta Icenorum
Site Map, history, pictures, tour, etc. - The Roman Town of Venta Icenorum
History, pictures, etc.
This is a link to an archived copy.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TG236040 (Lat/Lon: 52.587563, 1.299561), Caistor St Edmund which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.