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

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SWARDESTON, 4 miles S.S.W. of Norwich, is a pleasant village and parish, containing 359 souls, and about 900 acres of land, in two manors, called Swardeston and Gowthorpe. Hudson Gurney, Esq., is lord of the former, and the Rev. J.H. Steward of the latter; but part of the soil belongs to R.K. Long, Esq., J.T. and R.P. Kemp, Esqrs., and several smaller owners. Swardeston Rectory, built by the Hobart family, was mostly rebuilt some years ago, by its owner and occupant, J.T. Kemp, Esq., the impropriator.

The Hall Farm, formerly a seat of the Berneys, is the tithe-free estate of the Rev. J.H. Steward, of East Carlton, the patron and incumbent of the vicarage, valued in the King's Book at £6, and augmented with £800 of Queen Anne's Bounty, in 1800 and 1819, and £200 given by J. Steward, Esq., in the latter year. The CHURCH (Virgin Mary,) is a neat edifice, with an embattled tower and four bells. In its windows are some fragments of ancient stained glass. It has a beautiful screen, and contains memorials of the Marsh, Kemp, and Berney families.

Mangreen Hall, now a farm-house, belongs to R.K. Long, Esq.

DIRECTORY:-

         Arundell  Saml.              cooper
         Bell      Rev. Geo.          curate
         Brown     Peter              vict., Dog
         Brown     Robert             bricklayer
         Cannell   Henry              gardener
         Cannell   Isaac              blacksmith
         Davy      Barnard            blacksmith
         Hall      Jas.               carpenter
         Hubbard   John               gardener
         Jeffreys  Robert             butcher
         Kemp      John Turner, Esq.  Rectory
         Mortimer  Eleanor            schoolmrs.
         Whitaker  Wm.                gardener
 
                             farmers.
 
         Beverley  Wm.                King      Robert
         Bond      Robert             Lincoln   Edmund
         Bush      George             Twiss     Chpr.
 

See also the Swardeston parish page.

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August 2008