Norfolk: Kirstead

White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1845

[Transcription copyright © Mike Bristow]

KIRSTEAD, 7 miles S.S.E. of Norwich, has in its parish 249 souls, and 1,009 acres of land. G. S. Kett, Esq., is lord of the manor, and owner of a great part of the soil. The rest belongs to Chas. Kerrison, Esq., of Hill House; Bethel Hospital, in Norwich; Mr. Rt. B. Whall; and a few smaller owners.

The CHURCH (St. Margaret,) is a rectory, valued in K.B. at £10, and in 1831 at £334, in the gift of Emanuel College, Cambridge, and incumbency of the Rev. John Lewis.

Here was anciently a church (St. Stephen,) and rectory, called Langhall, and the parish is sometimes called Kirstead with-Langhall. The poor have 20s. a year left by Thos. Spooner, in 1630, out of land now belonging to G. S. Kett, Esq.

DIRECTORY:-

 Andrews   Michael      farm steward, Hall
 Bellman   Rev. Edmund  curate
 Butcher   Jas.         miller
 Freeman   Wm.          vict., Green Man
 Kerrison  Chas. Esq.   Hill House
 Whall     Robt. B.     gent.
 
    farmers
 Butcher   Jas. sen.
 Harvey    Wm.
 Martin    Wm.          (Pevers)
 Reeder    Wm.
 

See also the Kirstead parish page.

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December 2004